Fokus in plaas daarvan om die kamera te skuif.

Yes. Fokus is an imperative here, so it means Focus!

In Afrikaans, commands often use just the bare verb, with no subject written out. So:

• Fokus! = Focus!
• Wag! = Wait!
• Luister! = Listen!

You could add a subject for emphasis, but normally you do not.

Because fokus can be used on its own when the thing being focused on is understood from context.

If you want to name the target, Afrikaans often uses op:

• Fokus op die onderwerp. = Focus on the subject.

But in your sentence, the instruction is simply Focus, so op is not needed.

It means instead of when it is followed by an action.

So in this sentence:

• in plaas daarvan om die kamera te skuif = instead of moving the camera

It is best learned as a chunk. Literally, the parts are:

• in plaas = in place
• daarvan = roughly of that / from that as part of the fixed expression
• om = introduces the verb phrase

But in normal English, you would simply translate the whole thing as instead of.

This is a very common Afrikaans infinitive pattern: om ... te + verb.

Here:

• om introduces the infinitive clause
• te comes before the infinitive verb
• skuif is the verb itself

So:

• om die kamera te skuif = to move the camera

English usually has just one marker, to, but Afrikaans often uses this two-part structure.

Because Afrikaans usually puts the main verb of this kind of clause toward the end.

So the normal order is:

• om + object + te + verb

That gives:

• om die kamera te skuif

This is standard Afrikaans word order. The object die kamera comes before the infinitive verb skuif.

Skuif means move, shift, or slide.

In this sentence, it means to move/reposition the camera.

It often suggests changing something’s position, rather than moving in a general sense. So it fits well for something like adjusting or shifting a camera.

Die is the normal definite article in Afrikaans, and Afrikaans does not have grammatical gender in the article system the way some other languages do.

So:

• die kamera = the camera

Afrikaans also has very little case marking, so the object form usually looks the same as the subject form. That is why die kamera stays simple here.

Yes. Kamera is the Afrikaans form of the word camera.

This kind of spelling change is common in Afrikaans:

• English camera
• Afrikaans kamera

So for an English speaker, it is an easy word to recognize.