BASIC IMAGE RECORDING
About Auto Focus
•Auto Focus tends not to work well if the camera is moved during recording, or when recording the types of subjects listed below.
—Solid color walls or subjects with little contrast
—Strongly backlit subjects
—Polished metal or other brightly reflective subjects
—Venetian blinds or other horizontally repeating patterns
—Multiple subjects that are varying distances from the camera
—Subjects in poorly lit areas
—Moving subjects
•Note that a green operation lamp and focus frame do not necessarily guarantee that the resulting image will be in focus.
•If Auto Focus does not produce the results you want for some reason, try using focus lock (page 87) or manual focus (page 85).
About the REC Mode Monitor Screen
•The image shown on the monitor screen in a REC mode is a simplified image for composing purposes. The actual image is recorded in accordance with the image quality setting currently selected on your camera. The image saved in file memory has much better resolution and detail than the REC mode monitor screen image.
•Certain levels of subject brightness can cause the response of the REC mode monitor screen to slow down, which causes some digital noise (graininess) in the monitor screen image.
•Very bright light inside of an image can cause a vertical band to appear in the monitor screen image. This is a CCD phenomenon known as “vertical smear”, and does not indicate malfunction of the camera. Note that vertical smear is not recorded with the image in the case of a snapshot, but it is recorded in the case of a movie (page 124).
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