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Chapter 3: Taking Pictures 20 Taking More Advanced Pictures
Shooting Continuous Images
Note: If you set the timer mode to 10-Second
Timer or 3-Second Remote for the Continuous
image type, you can only take one picture.
Therefore, to capture a Continuous sequence of
images, use the shutter release button with no
timer mode set (that is, with the timer mode set
to its default Off setting).
Press the shutter release button and continue to hold the button down. Then the camera begins to
capture the images in the Continuous sequence.
Continuous images are captured until you release the shutter release button, or the memory card
becomes full, whichever comes first.
The camera will capture images as fast as it can. The capture rate (that is, the time between pictures)
will vary depending on the processing required (for such things as the resolution and image quality
settings) before each image is saved to the memory card (see the second Note on the left). The
capture rate also depends on whether or not the flash is being charged between shots. If you wish to
increase the capture rate of Continuous images, you can turn the live view of Capture mode off by
pressing the DISPLAY button on the back of the camera, turn Instant Review off through the
Display menu option in the Preferences menu of Capture mode (see “Display Submenu” on page
67), and set the flash mode to Forced Off (see “Setting the Flash Mode” on page 10).
Note: If Instant Review is on, each image in a
Continuous sequence except for the final one is
automatically saved to the memory card before
the camera captures the next image in the
sequence. If Instant Review is off, each image is
automatically saved before the next one is
captured, and then the final one is saved
automatically, as well.
Also note that, unlike Timelapse images,
Continuous images are not grouped together
but are individual images. Thus, they are saved
as individual images on the memory card.
If Instant Review is on (see “Using Instant Review” on page 25). at the end of taking a Continuous
sequence of images, the final image of the sequence is displayed in the Instant Review on the image
LCD. You can do any of the following during the Instant Review period:
Record sound that will be attached to the final image of the sequence. For information on how
to do this, see “Recording Sound” on page 26.
Delete the final image of the sequence by pressing the middle (Delete) soft key. (All of the
other images in the sequence were already saved to the memory card.)
Save the final image of the sequence to the memory card and return to the Capture mode
immediately by pressing the right (Exit) soft key. (All of the other images in the sequence were
already saved to the memory card.)
Do nothing and, when Instant Review times out (the default time-out is 3 seconds), the final
image of the sequence is then saved to the memory card automatically.
Note: If you are unhappy with any other
images within a Continuous sequence (rather
than just the final image, which you can only
delete during Instant Review), you can delete
those images in the Review mode. To do this,
see “Deleting Images” on page 32.