User's Manual

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Quick Start Basics
Operation
 If unwanted light is shining onto the lens, shade the lens with your hand when
shooting an image.
Monitor Screen when Shooting Snapshots
 Subject brightness conditions can cause monitor screen response to slow and can
cause digital noise in the monitor screen image.
 The image that appears on the monitor screen is for image composition. The actual
image will be recorded in accordance with the currently selected recording mode
(page 39).
Shooting Indoors under Fluorescent Lighting
 Minute flickering of fluorescent lighting can affect the brightness or color of an
image.
Other Precautions
 A noise reduction process is performed when ISO sensitivity is set to a high value.
This can cause the camera to take relatively longer to be ready to shoot again after
you press the shutter button. Do not perform any operation while the image
recording operation is in progress.
 Due to the characteristics of the imaging element used by the camera, very fast
moving objects in an image may appear distorted.
 Auto Focus Restrictions
 Any of the following can make proper focus impossible.
 Solid color wall or other very low contrast subject
 Strongly back lit subject
 Very shiny subject
 Blinds or other subject with a repeating horizontal pattern
 Multiple subjects at varying distances from the camera
 Subject in a dark location
 Camera movement while shooting
 Fast-moving subject
 Subjects outside the focus range of the camera
 Focus lock can be used in some recording modes. If you cannot focus properly, try
using focus lock (page 52).
Snapshot Shooting Precautions