Shooting Close-ups (Macro)

You can shoot an object at a close distance or even shoot extreme closeups of it. The shooting range is approximately 5 – 50 cm (2.0 in. – 1.6 ft.) from the end of the lens (when the zoom lever is pushed to maximum j).

Choose e.

●After pressing the qbutton, press the qr buttons or turn the  dial to choose e, then press the m button.

●Once set, e will appear.

About the Zoom Bar

•When you move the zoom lever, the zoom bar appears on the monitor. The camera cannot focus in e in the yellow portion of the bar.

•When zooming within the range of the yellow bar, e will be grayed out and shooting will be done in .

How can I take better close-ups?

•You are recommended to attach the camera to a tripod and shoot in Î, to prevent the camera from moving and blurring the image (p. 78).

•You can reduce the AF frame size when you want to focus on a specific portion of the subject (p. 82).

The edges of the image may darken if the flash fires.

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