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Scene Mode (Shooting Suited to the Shooting Conditions)
Tips and Notes About Scene Mode
o
Scene auto selector
•
The camera automatically recognizes the shooting conditions when you frame a
picture, making it easier to take pictures in accordance with those conditions.
•
When the camera automatically recognizes the shooting conditions, the shooting
mode icon displayed on the shooting screen changes accordingly.
* One image is captured at a slow shutter speed.
•
Under some shooting conditions, the camera may not select the desired settings. In
this case, select another shooting mode (
•
When the digital zoom is in effect, the shooting mode icon changes to
d
.
j
Night landscape
•
Press the
d
button to select
Y
Hand-held
or
Z
Tripod
in
Night landscape
.
•
Y
Hand-held
(default setting):
- While the
j
icon on the shooting screen is displayed in green, press the shutter-
release button all the way to capture a series of images which are combined into a
single image and saved.
- Once the shutter-release button is pressed all the way, hold the camera still until a
still image is displayed. After taking a picture, do not turn the camera off before the
screen switches to the shooting screen.
- The angle of view (i.e., the area visible in the frame) seen in the saved image is
narrower than that seen on the shooting screen.
•
Z
Tripod
:
- One image is captured at a slow shutter speed when the shutter-release button is
pressed all the way.
- Vibration reduction is disabled even when
Photo VR
138) in the setup menu is
set to
On
.
e
Portrait (for taking close-up portraits of one or two people)
b
Portrait (for taking portraits of large numbers of people, or images in which the
background takes up a large portion of the frame)
f
Landscape
h
Night portrait* (for taking close-up portraits of one or two people)
c
Night portrait* (for taking portraits of large numbers of people, or images in which
the background takes up a large portion of the frame)
g
Night landscape*
i
Close-up
j
Backlighting (for taking pictures of subjects other than people)
d
Backlighting (for taking portrait pictures)
d
Other shooting conditions