BASIC IMAGE RECORDING

Recording an lmage

Your camera automatically adjusts shutter speed in accordance with the brightness of the subject. Images you record are stored in the camera’s built-in memory, or to a memory card if you have one loaded in the camera.

• When an optionally available SD memory card or

MultiMediaCard (MMC) is loaded in the camera, images

3.Compose the image on the monitor screen.

•You can compose images using either the monitor screen or the optical viewfinder.

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are stored on the card (page 121).

• When using the optical viewfinder, you can turn off

the monitor screen to save power (page 25).

1.Press the power button to turn on the camera.

•This causes an image or a message to appear on the monitor screen.

2.Align the modeselector with “” (REC).

•This enters the REC mode for image recording.

ON/OFF

Power button

Mode selector

4. Press the shutter
release button to
record the image.

Shutter release button

•The number of images that can be stored in memory depends on the resolution setting you are using (pages 52, 178).

•Depending on the distance or angle between the subject and the camera, the image you see in the viewfinder may not be exactly the image that is recorded.

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