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Tips before you start taking pictures
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Turning the monitor on/off
You can take pictures with or without using the monitor.
MONITOR ON For taking pictures using the monitor (factory default setting)
MONITOR OFF For taking pictures using the viewfinder
Top menu [MONITOR OFF] / [MONITOR ON] g“Menus” (P.16)
(Features of the monitor and viewfinder
Monitor Viewfinder
Advantages
You can check the picture area
that the camera actually
records.
Camera movement does not
occur easily and subjects can be
seen clearly even in bright places.
Little battery power is used.
Disadvantages
Camera movement occurs easily
and subjects may be difficult to
see in bright/dark places. The
monitor uses more battery power
than the viewfinder.
When close to a subject, the
image in the viewfinder differs
slightly from the picture that the
camera actually records.
Tips
Use the monitor when you need to
know the exact area the camera
records, or to take a close-up of a
person or flower (macro shooting).
Use the viewfinder for general
snapshots, landscape pictures
and other casual shots.
Viewfinder
• The camera records a wider area than the image in the
viewfinder.
• As you get closer to the subject, the actual image recorded
(the shaded area in the illustration on the left) differs
slightly from the image in the viewfinder.
TIPS
The monitor turns off automatically.
→ If the camera is not used for over 3 minutes, the monitor turns off automatically.
Press the shutter button or zoom lever to turn the monitor on.
To adjust the brightness of the monitor.
→ Adjust the brightness with the [s] settings. g“Monitor brightness
adjustment” (P.117)
The monitor is hard to see.
→
Bright light, such as direct sunlight, may cause vertical lines (smears) to appear
on the image in the monitor. This does not affect recorded pictures.
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