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Taking pictures with automatic settings
[INTELLIGENT AUTO] Mode
Recording Mode:
Sequence of Recording
(Continued)
Holding the camera
Flash
AF assist lamp
• If jitter becomes noticeable, use both hands, keep your
arms close to your body, and stand with your feet at
shoulder width.
• Do not touch the lens.
• Do not block the microphone when recording motion
picture. (7)
• Do not block the flash or the AF assist lamp. Do not look
at it from close range.
• Try to hold the camera steady when you press the
shutter button.
Convenient ways to turn the power on
Besides opening the lens cover, you can also turn the power on as follows.
To turn the power on in Playback Mode
Hold
Pictures on the card or built-in memory are
displayed.
With the lens cover opened and the power off
Hold
The camera will turn on in Recording Mode.
• When the Power button is held with the lens cover
closed, a message [PLEASE OPEN THE LENS
COVER] is displayed.
Open the lens cover
The power is turned on.
Select [INTELLIGENT AUTO] Mode
• Press again to return to the
previous Recording Mode.
Recording Mode icon (see below)
Take pictures
Press halfway
(press lightly to
focus)
Press fully (press
the button all the
way to record)
Focus display
(when focus aligned:
flashing illuminated)
The type of scene detected is indicated by a
blue icon for two seconds
Optimum settings are made automatically from information such as ‘face,’ ‘movement,’
‘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.
Automatic scene detection
Camera identifies scene when pointed at subject, and makes optimum settings
automatically.
[i PORTRAIT]: People are detected
[i NIGHT PORTRAIT]: People and night
scenery are detected
(Only when
is selected)
[i SCENERY]: Scenery is detected
[i NIGHT SCENERY]: Night scenery is
detected
[i MACRO]: A close-up shot is detected
[i SUNSET]: A sunset is detected
Reads subject movement to avoid blurring when scene does not correspond to any of the
above.
If the camera automatically identifies the scene and determines that people appear
as subjects in the picture (
or
), Face Detection is activated, and the focus and
exposure are adjusted for the recognized faces.
Shutter button
