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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. To stabilize the digital
image, take pictures with h/< pressed.
The digital images are not stabilized when:
• images are shot using a zooming function of high magnification, i.e., using both optical
zoom and digital zoom functions,
• the object is dark and the shutter speed is slow, or
• the flash cannot be used or when a low shutter speed set s mode is selected.
Here is how to take pictures without the flash in this type of situation.
Set the camera to h mode
g “DIS MODE Shooting still pictures using digital image stabilization” (P. 25)
Increase the [ISO] setting
g “ISO Changing the ISO sensitivity” (P. 23)
There are several factors that can cause the picture to appear grainy.
Using the digital zoom to take close-up pictures
• With the digital zoom, part of the image is cropped and enlarged. The greater the
magnification, the grainier the picture appears.
g “DIGITAL ZOOM Zooming in on your subject” (P. 24)
Subjects that are difficult to focus on
To shoot a stabilized digital image
Taking stabilized pictures without the flash
The picture is too grainy
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.