Basic shooting operation | Please set the clock before | |||
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| (Continued) | shooting (P.14). |
Holding the camera/Direction detection function
AF assist lamp | • Stand with your arms close to your body and with |
Flash | your legs apart. |
• Do not touch the lens. |
• Do not block the microphone when recording audio. (P.9)
• Do not block the flash or the lamp. Do not look at it
Taking picture with automatic settings
‘INTELLIGENT AUTO Mode’
Mode: 
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.
Turn on the power
| Status indicator illuminated for |
Shutter button | approx. 1 second. |
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from close range.
•Pictures taken with camera held vertically can automatically be displayed vertically in playback. (Only when ‘ROTATE DISP.’ is set to ‘ON’) Pictures may not be able to be displayed vertically if taken with camera facing upwards or downwards. Motion pictures cannot be displayed vertically during playback.
Mode dial
Align to 
correct mode
The current mode will be displayed on the
LCD monitor when the mode dial is turned.
Status indicator
Automatic scene detection
Camera reads scene when pointed at subject, and makes optimum settings automatically.
•During AF tracking (P.23), 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.
Set to 
Set to 
(INTELLIGENT AUTO Mode)
Take a picture
| Focus display |
| (when focus |
Press halfway | aligned: |
flashing → | |
(Adjust the | illuminated) |
focus) |
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| Recognized scene icon displayed in |
| blue for 2 sec. |
INTELLIGENT AUTO
Mode
NORMAL PICTURE Mode
MY SCENE MODE
SCENE MODE
MOTION PICTURE Mode
CLIPBOARD Mode
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Take pictures with automatic settings (P.21).
Take pictures with customized settings (P.24).
Taking pictures in
Take pictures according to scene.
Take motion pictures.
Take pictures as memos.
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’
Recognises movement
Reads subject movement to avoid blurring when scene does not correspond to any of the above.
Press fully |
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