Canon G9 Advanced Shooting Functions, Shooting Using the Mode Dial, Commonly Used Shooting Functions

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Formatting Memory Cards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69

Commonly Used Shooting Functions 70

Using the Optical Zoom . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70

Using the Digital Zoom/Digital Tele-Converter . . . . . . . . . 71

Using the Flash . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74

Shooting Close-ups (Macro) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75

Using the Self-Timer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76

Changing the Recording Pixels and

Compression (Still Images) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78

Changing the Image Type . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80

Setting the Image Stabilizer Function . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82

Adjusting the ISO Speed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84

Checking the Focus and Peoples’

Expressions (Focus Check) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86

Shooting Using the Mode Dial 88

Mode Dial. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88 Shooting Modes for Specific Scenes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89 Program AE. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93 Setting the Shutter Speed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94 Setting the Aperture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96 Manually Setting the Shutter Speed and Aperture . . . 98 Shooting Panoramic Images (Stitch Assist) . . . . . . . 100 Movie Shooting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102 Setting the Recording Functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108 Saving Custom Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109

Advanced Shooting Functions 111

Continuous Shooting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111 Setting the Red-Eye Reduction Function. . . . . . . . . . . . . 113 Setting the Slow Synchro. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114 Switching between Focus Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115 Selecting an AF Frame Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116 Shooting Hard-to-Focus Subjects (Focus Lock, AF Lock,

Manual Focus, Safety MF). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123 Focus Bracketing (Focus-BKT Mode) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127