Pressing the Shutter Button

The shutter button features a two-stage action.

Indicator

AF Frame

Pressing Halfway

Pressing halfway automatically sets the exposure, focus and white balance.

•The indicators shine or flash as follows.

-Green: Metering complete (two beeps sound)

-Orange: Flash will fire

-Flashing Orange: Camera shake warning/ Insufficient exposure

-Yellow: Macro mode/Manual focus mode

-Flashing Yellow: Focusing difficulty (single beep sounds)

*Use the focus lock or focus manually to shoot when the indicator flashes yellow (p. 80).

•The AF frame appears as follows when the LCD monitor is on.

-Green: Metering complete

-Yellow: Focusing difficulty

Pressing Fully

Pressing fully releases the shutter.

•You will hear the shutter sound when the shot is complete. Do not move the camera until you hear this sound. The upper indicator will flash green while the image is recording onto the CF card.

• If the orange or yellow indicator flashes while you press halfway, you can still press fully to take the shot.

•Images are first saved into the camera’s internal memory before being recorded onto the CF card, allowing the next images to be taken immediately as long as sufficient space is available in the internal memory.

•The beep and shutter sound can be set On / Off in the Set up menu (p. 118).

•When the shutter sound is set to Off, but the beep is set to On, one beep will sound when the shutter button is fully pressed.

•There is no shutter sound in movie mode.

36Basic Functions