17
Basic Photography
Basic Photography
The Battery Indicator
Shooting
display
Control
panel
Status
Notes
—
Battery fully charged.
Camera functions normally.
Battery partially discharged.
Low battery. Ready spare
battery.
If built-in Speedlight fi res, monitor
turns off while fl ash recharges.
WARNING!!
BATTERY
EXHAUSTED
(fl ashes)
Battery exhausted.
No pictures can be taken until
battery has been recharged or
replaced.
Step 1 —Rotate the Mode Dial to
Shooting
mode
:
indicates
auto mode.
Battery
indicator
8M
8M
8M
F2.8
F2.8
F2.8
1/60
60
1/60
126
126
126
Monitor / electronic
viewfi nder
Control panel
Exposure mode (
46)
:
P
(pro-
grammed auto) is automatical-
ly selected in
mode.
Number of exposures remaining ( 36)
:
Depends on capacity of memory card and
options chosen for image quality and size.
Image quality / size (
33)
:
Choose according to how
picture will be used.
This section describes how to take pictures in
(auto) mode, an automatic,
“point-and-shoot” mode recommended for fi rst-time users of digital cameras.
Rotate the mode dial to
and turn the camera on
The lens will extend and the monitor or electronic view-
fi nder will display a welcome message (
135). The
camera is ready to shoot when the view through the
camera lens is displayed and the control panel lights.
Vibration reduction (VR) indicator (
45)
:
Displayed when vibration reduction is on. Vi-
bration reduction reduces blurring caused by
small camera movements (camera shake).