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OTHER RECORDING FUNCTIONS
1.
Press [ ] (REC), and then select “
BESTSHOT” as the recording mode (page 48).
2.
Use [̇] and [̈] to select “ Pre-shot” , and then
press [SET].
3.
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.
• The focus, exposure, white balance, zoom, and flash
settings are fixed for this type of image.
Semi-transparent
background
4.
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.
• You can press [MENU] at this point to clear the semi-
transparent background from the monitor screen.
Then you can repeat step 3 to record a new
background.
5.
After composing the final image (using the
semi-transparent background as a guide), the
person with the camera should press the
shutter button to record.
• Note that the semi-transparent background image
you temporarily record in step 3 is for composition
purposes only. The final image contains only what is
in front of the camera when the shutter button is
pressed in step 5.