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Shooting Features
Smart Portrait Mode (Enhancing Human Faces When Shooting)
Using Self-Collage
The camera can capture a series of four or nine images
at intervals and save them as a one-frame image (a
collage image).
1
Press the multi selector
J
to select
n
Self-Collage , and press the
k
button.
•
A confirmation dialog is displayed.
•
When you press the
d
button and select Self-
Collage before pressing
J
, you can configure the
settings for Number of shots , Interval , and
Shutter sound (
A
116).
•
If you want to apply glamour retouch when
shooting, set the effect before selecting self-
collage (
A
44).
2
Take a picture.
•
When you press the shutter-release button, a
countdown starts (about five seconds) and the
shutter is automatically released.
•
The camera automatically releases the shutter for
the remaining pictures. A countdown starts about
three seconds before shooting.
•
The number of shots is indicated by
U
on the
screen. It is displayed in green during shooting and it changes to white after shooting.
3
On the screen displayed when the camera finishes taking the number of
shots that is set in
Number of shots , select Yes and press the
k
button.
•
The collage image is saved.
•
Each captured image is saved as an individual image separate from the collage
image. The images are grouped as a sequence, and a one-frame collage image is
used as the key picture (
A
68).
•
When No is selected, the collage image is not saved.
B
Notes About Self-Collage
•
If you press the shutter-release button before the camera takes the specified number of
shots, shooting is canceled and the collage image is not saved. The pictures that were
taken before shooting was canceled are saved as individual images.
•
This function may not be available to use in combination with other functions (
A
62).
Self-Collage
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