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Shooting Features
h Sunset
• The camera focuses on the area in the center of the frame.
i Dusk/dawn
• The focus area or focus indicator (A 9) always turns green when the shutter-release button is
pressed halfway.
j Night landscape
• After you select j Night landscape, select Y Hand-held or Z Tripod on the next screen.
• Y Hand-held (default setting): Select this option to produce shots with reduced blurring and
noise even when the camera is hand-held.
- When j in the upper left of the monitor lights in green, press the shutter-release button all
the way to capture a series of images that will be combined and saved as a single image.
- Once the shutter-release button is pressed all the way, hold the camera still until the
captured image is displayed. After taking a picture, do not turn the camera off before the
monitor switches to the shooting screen.
• Z Tripod: Select this option when using a tripod or other means to stabilize the camera when
shooting.
- Vibration reduction is not used even if
Vibration reduction
(
A
96) in the setup menu is set to
On
.
- One image is captured at a slow shutter speed when the shutter-release button is pressed all
the way.
• The focus area or focus indicator (A 9) always turns green when the shutter-release button is
pressed halfway.
• Digital zoom cannot be used.
k Close-up
• Macro mode (A 59) is enabled and the camera automatically zooms to the closest position at
which it can shoot.
• The camera focuses on the area in the center of the frame. Use focus lock to frame the picture
on an object not in the center of the frame (A 70).
• The camera focuses even when the shutter-release button is not pressed halfway. You may hear
the sound of the camera focusing.
O
O
O: Shutter speed is reduced when using scene modes indicated with O; therefore, the use of a
tripod is recommended. Set Vibration reduction to Off in the setup menu (A 96) when
shooting using a tripod to stabilize the camera.