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Shooting Features
Scene Mode (Shooting Suited to the Shooting Conditions)
y M e
Night portrait
•
On the screen displayed when
e
Night portrait is selected, select
u
Hand-held or
w
Tripod .
•
u
Hand-held (default setting):
- While the
e
icon on the shooting screen is displayed in green, press the shutter-
release button all the way to capture a series of images which are combined into a
single image and saved.
- Once the shutter-release button is pressed all the way, hold the camera still until a still
image is displayed. After taking a picture, do not turn the camera off before the screen
switches to the shooting screen.
- If the subject moves while the camera is shooting continuously, the image may be
distorted, overlapped, or blurred.
- The angle of view (i.e., the area visible in the frame) seen in the saved image is
narrower than that seen on the shooting screen.
- Continuous shooting may not be possible in certain shooting conditions.
•
w
Tripod :
- One image is captured at a slow shutter speed when the shutter-release button is
pressed all the way.
- Vibration reduction is disabled regardless of the Photo VR setting (
A
145) in the
setup menu.
•
The flash always fires. Raise the flash before shooting.
•
If human faces are detected when the picture is taken, the camera softens the facial skin
tones using the skin softening function (
A
37).
y M f
Party/indoor
•
To avoid the effects of camera shake, hold the camera steady. Set Photo VR (
A
145) to
Off in the setup menu when using a tripod to stabilize the camera during shooting.
y M j
Night landscape
•
On the screen displayed when
j
Night landscape is selected, select
u
Hand-held
or
w
Tripod .
•
u
Hand-held (default setting):
- While the
j
icon on the shooting screen is displayed in green, press the shutter-
release button all the way to capture a series of images which are combined into a
single image and saved.
- Once the shutter-release button is pressed all the way, hold the camera still until a still
image is displayed. After taking a picture, do not turn the camera off before the screen
switches to the shooting screen.
- The angle of view (i.e., the area visible in the frame) seen in the saved image is
narrower than that seen on the shooting screen.
- Continuous shooting may not be possible in certain shooting conditions.
•
w
Tripod :
- One image is captured at a slow shutter speed when the shutter-release button is
pressed all the way.
- Vibration reduction is disabled regardless of the Photo VR setting (
A
145) in the
setup menu.