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Taking pictures with automatic settings
[Intelligent Auto] Mode
Recording Mode:
Display the screen for Recording
Mode selection
Select [Intelligent Auto] Mode
Take pictures
Press halfway
(press lightly to
focus)
Press fully
(press the button all
the way to record)
Optimum settings are made automatically from information such as “face,” “brightness,”
and “distance” just by pointing the camera at the subject, meaning that clear pictures can
be taken without the need to make settings manually.
Basics
Shutter button
Focus display
( When focus is aligned: illuminated
When focus is not aligned: flashing)
The type of scene detected is indicated
by a blue icon for two seconds
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Holding the camera
Speaker
Flash
Microphone
•To avoid camera shake, hold it with both hands keeping
your arms close to your body and standing with your feet
slightly apart.
•Do not touch the lens.
•Do not block the flash.
Do not look at it from close range.
•Try to hold the camera steady when you press the
shutter button.
•
Be careful not to block the microphone or the
speaker.
•We recommend the use of the hand strap to avoid
dropping the camera.
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To set flash
Select either
or .
•When
is selected, the type of flash automatically changes
according to the subject and brightness. (→32)
•
and
indicate that the Red-Eye Reduction function is
activated.
•The shutter speed is slower in
and .
