Reference Manual (complete instructions)

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Shooting Features
Scene Mode (Shooting Suited to the Shooting Conditions)
c Landscape
• Press the d button to select Noise reduction burst or Single shot in Landscape.
• Noise reduction burst: This enables you to shoot a sharp landscape with a minimum
of noise.
- Press the shutter-release button all the way to capture a series of images which are
combined into a single image and saved.
- Once the shutter-release button is pressed all the way, hold the camera still until a still
image is displayed. After taking a picture, do not turn the camera off before the screen
switches to the shooting screen.
- The angle of view (i.e., the area visible in the frame) seen in the saved image is
narrower than that seen on the shooting screen.
- Continuous shooting may not be possible in certain shooting conditions.
• Single shot (default setting): Saves images with emphasized outlines and contrast.
- One image is captured when the shutter-release button is pressed all the way.
y M x Scene auto selector
• When you point the camera at the subject, the camera automatically recognizes the
shooting conditions and adjusts the shooting settings accordingly.
• Under some shooting conditions, the camera may not select the desired settings. In
this case, select another shooting mode (A38).
• If human faces are detected when the picture is taken, the camera softens the facial skin
tones using the skin softening function (A48).
e Portrait (for taking close-up portraits of one or two people)
b
Portrait (for taking portraits of large numbers of people, or images in which the
background takes up a large portion of the frame)
f Landscape
h Night portrait (for taking close-up portraits of one or two people)
c
Night portrait (for taking portraits of large numbers of people, or images in which
the background takes up a large portion of the frame)
g
Night landscape
• The camera shoots images continuously and combines and saves them as a
single image in the same way as when Hand-held in X (night landscape)
(A41) is selected.
i Close-up
j Backlighting (for taking pictures of subjects other than people)
d Backlighting (for taking portrait pictures)
d Other shooting conditions