α Handbook
Table Of Contents
- Table of Contents
- Basic operations
- Advanced operations
- Preparation
- Shooting
- Selecting the shooting mode
- Movie recording setup
- Adjusting the focus
- Detecting faces
- Adjusting the brightness of the image
- The flash
- Setting ISO
- Compensating for the brightness and contrast automatically (D-Range)
- Setting the image processing
- Adjusting the color tones (White balance)
- Magnifies images with higher scale than the optical zoom (ZOOM)
- Selecting the drive mode
- Playback
- Setup of the camera
- Computer
- Cleaning
- Trouble shooting/Others
- Index
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Monitoring the subject through the lens without effects
displayed ........................................................... 79
List of icons for viewfinder mode .............................. 81
Shooting a clear image without camera shake ................ 83
Camera shake warning indicator ................................ 83
Using the SteadyShot function ................................... 83
Using a tripod ............................................................. 84
Shooting
Selecting the shooting mode ............................................ 85
Intelligent Auto/ Flash Off .............................. 85
Superior Auto .................................................... 85
Scene Selection .................................................. 86
Sweep Panorama/ 3D Sweep Panorama....... 88
Tele-zoom Cont. Priority AE ............................. 90
Program Auto ......................................................... 91
Aperture Priority ................................................... 92
Shutter Priority ....................................................... 94
Manual Exposure ................................................... 96
BULB ..................................................................... 97
Movie recording setup ................................................... 100
Recording movies easily .......................................... 100
Digital Zoom ............................................................ 101
Recording movies with the shutter speed and aperture
adjusted ........................................................... 102
File Format ............................................................... 103
Record Setting .......................................................... 103
Audio Recording ...................................................... 104
Adjusting the focus ........................................................ 106
Autofocus ................................................................. 106
Focus-lock ................................................................ 108
Autofocus Mode ....................................................... 109
AF area ..................................................................... 110
The AF illuminator ................................................... 110
Object Tracking ........................................................ 111
Manual focus ............................................................ 113
Peaking ..................................................................... 114
Focus Magnifier ....................................................... 114










