NOTE

•The following conditions are not compatible with Slide Panorama shooting.

–Subject whose brightness is very different from that of its surroundings due to artificial light, sunlight, etc.

–Rivers, waves, waterfalls, or other subject with constantly changing patterns

–Sky, beach, or other subject with continuous patterns

–Camera too close to the main subject

–Moving subject

•Slide Panorama may stop part way through in the following cases.

–Subject or camera movement

–Camera movement that is too fast or too slow

•Shooting a Slide Panorama image after half-pressing the shutter button to perform Auto Focus may not produce the desired results if there are considerable differences in the brightness, color, and/or focus of the individual images. If this happens, try changing the focus position by focusing on a different subject, etc.

•Since a Slide Panorama image is created by joining multiple images together, there may be some roughness at the point where two images are joined.

•Shooting under a flickering light source (such as fluorescent lighting) may result in uneven brightness and/or coloring in the final Slide Panorama image.

•Shooting in dark surroundings may result in a blurred image or may make Slide Panorama shooting impossible.

•Slowly move the camera at a constant speed in the same direction as the arrow that appears on the monitor screen.

•When moving the camera, try to keep the arrow on the monitor screen as straight as possible.

•The exposure and white balance when shooting Slide Panorama images are fixed at the levels measured when you half-press the shutter button at the beginning of the operation.

•An error message will appear if the camera is unable to successfully record a series of images.

•If you shoot a moving subject, the camera may not be able to compose the panorama image properly.

•With this BEST SHOT scene, the flash setting automatically becomes ? (Flash Off).

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Using BEST SHOT