Taking picture with automatic settings
‘INTELLIGENT AUTO Mode’
Mode: 
Turn on the power
| Status indicator illuminated for |
Shutter button | approx. 1 second. |
|
Optimum settings are made automatically from information such as ‘face’, ‘movement’, ‘brightness’, and ‘distance’ just by pointing the camera at the subject, meaning that clear pictures can be taken without the need to make settings manually.
Backlight compensation
Backlight refers to the light that shines from behind the subject. When this occurs, the subject appears darker, and so backlighting is automatically corrected by increasing the brightness of the entire image.
To use flash
Status indicator
Automatic scene detection
Camera reads scene when pointed at subject, and makes optimum settings automatically.
•During AF tracking (P.34), the optimum scene is automatically selected for the subject where the focus was locked (AF Lock).
Recognises ‘i PORTRAIT’ Follows face to take clear, bright pictures.
Recognises ‘i SCENERY’ Takes sharp pictures of near and far landscapes.
Recognises ‘i MACRO’
Reads distance to take sharp pictures of close subjects
Recognises ‘i NIGHT PORTRAIT’
Takes bright, natural pictures of people and night scenery. (Only with 
)
Recognises ‘i NIGHT SCENERY’
Uses slow shutter speed to achieve natural colouring.(Only with 
)
Recognises ‘i BABY’
(P.34)
Recognises movement
Reads subject movement to avoid blurring when scene does not correspond to any of the above.
Set to 
Set to 
(INTELLIGENT AUTO Mode)
Take a picture
| Focus display |
| (when focus |
Press halfway | aligned: |
flashing → | |
(Adjust the | illuminated) |
focus) |
|
| Recognized scene icon displayed in |
| blue for 2 sec. |
Press fully |
|
Select either 
(Auto) or 
(forced flash off).
When using 
, 
(AUTO), 
and 
(Slow
A second flash will be emitted in 
and 
for
Focus range → (P.47).
In addition to automatic scene detection, ‘INTELLIGENT ISO 
’, ‘I.EXPOSURE’, and ‘BACKLIGHT COMPENSATION’ will operate automatically.
The following menu items may be set in INTELLIGENT AUTO Mode.
•
(REC menu): ‘PICTURE SIZE 1’, ‘BURST’, ‘COLOR MODE 1’, ‘FACE RECOG. 1’ 
•
(MOTION PICTURE menu) 
: ‘REC MODE’, ‘REC QUALITY 1’, ‘COLOR MODE 1’
•(SETUP menu 2): ‘CLOCK SET’, ‘WORLD TIME’, ‘BEEP 1’, ‘LANGUAGE’
1Items that may be set differ from other recording modes.
2Other items in the SETUP menu will reflect settings made in other recording modes. 
According to the following conditions, different scene types may be determined for the
same subject.
•Face contrast, conditions of subject (size, distance, colouring, movement), zoom ratio, sunset, sunrise, low brightness, jitter
If desired scene type is not selected, we recommend manually selecting the appropriate recording mode.
(scene mode: P.51)
We recommend using a tripod and the
When jitter is small (e.g. using tripod)
with ‘i NIGHT SCENERY’, shutter speed can reach a maximum of 8 seconds. Do not move the camera.
The settings for the following functions are fixed.
• AUTO REVIEW: 2 SEC. • POWER SAVE: 5 MIN. • GUIDE LINE: 
• WHITE BALANCE: AWB • QUALITY: 
(Fine) • STABILIZER: AUTO
• AF MODE:
(Face detection) 1 • AF ASSIST LAMP: ON
• METERING MODE: 
(Multiple) • PRE AF:
1 
The following functions cannot be used.
To take motion pictures 
(P.61)
‘HISTOGRAM’, ‘EXPOSURE’, ‘AUTO BRACKET’, ‘MULTI ASPECT’ 
, ‘WB ADJUST.’, ‘DIGITAL ZOOM’, ‘MIN. SHTR SPEED’, ‘AUDIO REC.’
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