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5.
Image and Picture Quality Settings
Applicable modes:
You can combine 3 pictures with different levels of exposure into a single picture with rich
gradation. You can minimize the loss of gradations in bright areas and dark areas when,
for example, the contrast between the background and the subject is large.
An image combined by HDR is recorded in JPEG.
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What Is HDR?
HDR stands for High Dynamic Range and refers to a technique for expressing a wide
contrast range.
• Do not move the camera during the continuous shooting after pressing the shutter button.
• You cannot take the next picture until the combination of pictures is complete.
• A moving subject may be recorded with unnatural blurs.
• The angle of view becomes narrow slightly when [Auto Align] is set to [ON].
• Flash is fixed to [
Œ
] (forced flash off).
Not available in these cases:
• [HDR] does not work for the pictures taken during a motion picture recording.
• [HDR] is not available in the following cases.
– When [Quality] is set to [
], [
] or [
]
– When using [Time Lapse Shot]
– When using [Stop Motion Animation] (only when [Auto Shooting] is set)
Combining pictures with different exposures ([HDR])
>
[Rec]
>
[HDR]
[ON]
Records HDR pictures.
[OFF]
Does not record HDR pictures.
[SET]
[Dynamic Range]
[AUTO]:
Automatically adjusts the exposure range according to the differences
between the bright and dark areas.
[
n
1 EV]/[
n
2 EV]/[
n
3 EV]:
Adjusts the exposure within the selected exposure parameters.
[Auto Align]
[ON]:
Automatically corrects camera shake (jitter) and other problems that
can cause the images to misalign. Recommended for use during
hand-held shooting.
[OFF]:
Image misalignment not adjusted. Recommended when a tripod is
used.
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