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Basic Camera Setup: The Setup Menu
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Vibration Reduction
Choose a vibration reduction option for shooting.
Vibration reduction effectively reduces blur caused by slight hand movement
known as camera shake, which commonly occurs when shooting with zoom
applied or at slow shutter speeds. The effects of camera shake are reduced when
recording movies, in addition to when taking still pictures.
Set
Vibration reduction
to
Off
when using a tripod to stabilize the camera
during shooting.
The current vibration reduction setting can be confirmed in the camera monitor
with shooting (
8, 23). When
Off
is selected, no icon is displayed.
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Notes on Vibration Reduction
•
Vibration reduction may take a few seconds to activate after the power is turned on, or the camera
enters shooting mode from playback mode. Wait until the image of the monitor stabilizes before
shooting.
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Due to characteristics of the vibration reduction function, images displayed in the camera’s
monitor immediately after shooting may be displayed blurry.
•
Vibration reduction may be unable to completely eliminate the effects of camera shake in some
situations.
•
Image processing with electronic vibration reduction may not perform as expected with very
slight or extreme camera shake, even when
On (hybrid)
is selected.
•
Image processing with electronic vibration reduction is not enabled at fast or extremely slow
shutter speeds, even when
On (hybrid)
is selected.
•
When
On (hybrid)
is selected and electronic vibration reduction is activated, the shutter is
automatically released twice when a picture is taken to allow for image processing. Therefore, the
time required to record pictures increases.
Shutter sound
(
129) can be heard only when the
shutter is released the first time and a single picture will be recorded.
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Vibration reduction
On (hybrid)
The effects of camera shake are reduced optically using a lens-shift method.
Additional image processing with electronic vibration reduction is applied to
further reduce the effects of camera shake with recording of still pictures taken
under the following conditions.
•
When the flash does not fire
•
When a shutter speed slower than 1/60 seconds is used
•
When
Self-timer
is disabled
•
When
Continuous
is set to
Single
•
When ISO sensitivity is set to 200 or less
On (default setting)
The vibration reduction method using the lens-shift method only is enabled.
Off
Vibration reduction is not enabled.