Provided is an automatic focusing method used by a digital image
processing apparatus including a zoom lens moving in a moving range of a
first guide bar and a focus lens moving in a moving range of a second
guide bar disposed on an extension of the first guide bar. The method
includes performing focusing while moving the zoom lens in a range from a
zooming limit position in the first guide bar to a set zoom limit
position, if a current photographing mode is a close-range photographing
mode and a current position of the zoom lens is the zooming limit
position.