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Flash shooting
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TIPS
The orange lamp or the
(flash standby) indication blinks.
→
The flash is charging. Wait until the orange lamp goes off.
Camera movement warning (Auto-flash, red-eye reduction, fill-in
flash)
→
When the orange lamp or
(camera movement warning) lights,
the shutter speed locks at its current level. This helps prevent
camera shake problems (shutter speeds that are too slow can
cause blur). However, if the zoom magnification is increased, the
camera will increase the locked shutter speed accordingly.
• AUTO,
,
, and
SLOW are not available in
mode.
• The flash does not fire in the following situations:
When shooting a bright subject (AUTO,
)
,
in the movie
record mode, during sequential shooting (
,
,
, BKT), during super-macro shooting, when
FUNCTION is set to WHITE BOARD/BLACK BOARD, during
Panorama shooting.
• The flash may not give you the optimum result in macro mode,
especially with wide-angle shooting. Check the resulting picture on
the monitor.
• If a conversion lens is attached to the camera, do not use the flash.
Zoom position
Shutter speed
W (max.)
1/30 sec.
T (max.)
1/100 sec.
Note
