20
21
Using
the Camera
7
Press the Shutter button down halfway. Focusing is
complete when the AF frame on the LCD monitor
shrinks and the viewfinder lamp (green) stops
blinking and remains lit.
●
!
If “
{
” appears on the LCD monitor, the camera cannot focus.
●
!
Pressing the shutter button down halfway, the image on the
LCD monitor freezes briefly. However, this is not the recorded
image.
●
!
If “
{
” appears on the LCD monitor, (e.g. the shot is too dark
for the camera to focus), try standing about 2 m (6.6 ft.) from
your subject to take the picture.
SHOOTING STILL IMAGES (
a
AUTO MODE)
STILL PHOTOGRAPHY MODE
8
To take the picture, press the Shutter button down
fully without lifting your finger off it. The camera beeps
and takes the picture, and the data is then recorded.
●
!
There is a slight delay between the Shutter button being
pressed and the shot being taken. If necessary, play back the
shot to check the image.
●
!
Pressing the Shutter button down fully in one motion, the shot
is taken without the AF frame changing.
●
!
When you take the shot, the viewfinder lamp lights orange
(shooting disabled). The viewfinder lamp then changes to
green to indicate that the next picture can be taken.
●
!
The viewfinder lamp blinks orange while the flash is charging.
If the LCD monitor is switched on, the screen goes dark. This
is normal and does not indicate a fault.
●
!
See P.72-73 for information on the warning displays.
Beep
◆
Subjects Not Suitable for Autofocus
◆
Though the FinePix A205/FinePix A210 uses an accurate autofocus mechanism, it may have difficulty
focusing or not be able to focus at all for the types of subjects and situations listed below. In such
cases, the image may be out of focus.
h
Very shiny subjects such as a mirror or car body
h
Subjects photographed through glass
h
Subjects that do not reflect well, such as hair or fur
h
Subjects with no substance, such as smoke or
flames
h
When the subject is dark
h
When there is very little contrast between the
subject and the background (such as white walls
or subjects dressed in the same color as the
background)
h
Subjects moving at high speed
h
When something other than your subject is close
to the AF frame, has contrasting areas of light and
dark and is either closer or further away than your
subject (as when you photograph someone
against a background with strongly contrasting
elements)
For subjects of this type, use AF/AE lock (
➡
P.22).
■
Viewfinder Lamp Display
Display
Status
Lit green
Ready to shoot
Blinking green
AF/AE in progress, camera shake warning or AF warning (Ready to shoot)
Blinking green and
orange alternately
Recording to
xD-Picture Card
(Ready to shoot)
Lit orange
Recording to
xD-Picture Card
(Not ready)
Blinking orange
Flash charging (Flash will not fire)
Blinking green
(1-second intervals)
Camera in Power Save mode (
➡
P.47)
Blinking red
h
xD-Picture Card
Warnings
No card loaded, card not formatted, incorrect format, card full,
xD-Picture Card
error
h
Lens operation error
✽
When the LCD monitor is switched on, more detailed warning messages are displayed (
➡
P.72-73).
Quality mode
DPC-16 (16 MB)
DPC-32 (32 MB)
DPC-64 (64 MB)
DPC-128 (128 MB)
DPC-256 (256 MB)
Number of recorded pixels
NUMBER OF AVAILABLE FRAMES
The number of available frames in this card is
displayed on the screen.
●
!
See P.30 for information on changing the quality mode.
●
!
The default quality mode “
y
” set at shipment is
1
.
2
2M
25
50
101
204
409
1600
×
1200
1
1M
33
68
137
275
550
1280
×
960
`
0.3M
122
247
497
997
1997
640
×
480
■
Standard number of frames per xD-Picture Card
The table below shows the standard number of available frames for a new
xD-Picture Card
formatted on the camera. The
larger the
xD-Picture Card
capacity, the greater the divergence between the actual number of available frames and the
number shown here. Also, because the amount of data recorded for a shot varies depending on the subject, in some cases
the number of shots may decrease by 2 or may remain the same. As a result, the actual number of recordable shots may
either decrease or increase.
FinePix A210
FinePix A205
Quality mode
DPC-16 (16 MB)
DPC-32 (32 MB)
DPC-64 (64 MB)
DPC-128 (128 MB)
DPC-256 (256 MB)
Number of recorded pixels
3
3M
2
2M
1
1M
`
0.3M
19
40
81
162
325
25
50
101
204
409
33
68
137
275
550
122
247
497
997
1997
2048
×
1536
1600
×
1200
1280
×
960
640
×
480
