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Getting to know your camera better
• Under certain types of conditions, it is difficult to focus using auto focus. The green
lamp on the monitor lights, allowing you to check if the focus is locked.
In these cases, focus (focus lock) on an object with high contrast at the same
distance as the intended subject, recompose your shot and then take the picture.
If the subject has no vertical lines, hold the camera vertically and focus the camera
using the focus lock function by pressing the shutter button halfway, and then
return the camera to the horizontal position while keeping the button pressed
halfway and take the picture.
Hold the camera in a correct posture and press the shutter button slowly.
You can reduce the blurring by shooting the picture in h mode.
The factors that can cause the picture to blur are as follows:
• Images are shot using a zooming function of high magnification.
• The object is dark and the shutter speed is slow.
• The flash cannot be used or when a low shutter speed shooting mode is selected.
The flash is activated automatically when there is insufficient light and the camera is
shaken. To take pictures without using the flash even when it is dark, first set the flash
mode to [$] and then do the following setting.
Set the camera to h mode
• Because the sensitivity of the CCD increases automatically, you can hold the
camera and take pictures in darker places with the flash off.
g“h Shooting pictures using digital image stabilization” (P.11)
Subjects that are difficult to focus on
Taking pictures without blurring
Taking pictures without the flash
The green lamp
blinks.
The subject cannot
be brought into
focus.
Subject with low
contrast
Subject with an
extremely bright
area in the center
of the frame
Subject without
vertical lines
Subjects at
different distances
Fast-moving
subject
The subject is not
in the center of the
frame
The green lamp
lights, but the
subject cannot be
brought into focus.