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Recording a Subject onto an Existing Background Image
Pre-Shot helps you get the background you want, even if you need to ask someone
else to record the image for you. Basically, Pre-Shot is a two-step process.
Higher resolution and higher quality images provide finer detail but cause the images’
file size to be larger.
To change image resolution or image quality, perform these steps below:
Step 1: You compose the background you want and press the shutter button, which causes
a
semi-transparent image of the background to remain on the monitor screen.
Step 2: Ask someone else to record a shot of you against your original background, telling
him/her to compose the image by using the semi-transparent monitor screen image
as a guide. Camera stores the image produced by step 2 only.
Step 3: Depending on how the image is actually composed in step 2, its background may not
be exactly the same as the one you composed in step 1.
1. Slide the mode switch to [
].
a. Press the
MENU
button.
b. Select [Function] with the
f
button.
c. Select [Capture Mode] with the
c
/
d
buttons, and press the
SET
button.
d. Select [Pre-Shot] with the
c
/
d
buttons, and press the
SET
button.
e. Press the
MENU
button to exit from the menu screen.
2. Compose the background you want on the monitor screen, and then press the shutter
button to temporarily record it as a reference image.
This operation causes a semi-transparent image of the background to appear on the
monitor screen, but the displayed image is not actually saved in camera memory.
3. Now you can stand in front of the background and ask someone else to snap your
picture, using the semi-transparent background on the monitor screen as a composition
guide.
4. After composing the final image (using the semi-transparent background as a guide), the
person with camera should press the shutter button to record.
Note that the semi-transparent background image you temporarily record in step 2 is for
composition purposes only. The final image contains only what is in front of camera
when the shutter button is pressed in step 4.
Freeze the background on
the monitor screen.
Only the second image
is recorded.
Record the image, using
the background on the
monitor screen as a guide.
