Snapshot Shooting Precautions

Operation

While the operation lamp is flashing green, never open the battery cover or place the camera onto or remove it from the USB cradle. Doing so can result in incorrect storage of the image you just shot, damage to other images stored in memory, malfunction of the camera, etc.

Shooting a dark subject while “Auto” is selected for the ISO sensitivity (page 126) setting will cause the camera to increase sensitivity and increase shutter speed automatically. Such conditions can cause digital noise in the image.

If unneeded light is shining directly onto the lens, shade the lens with your hand when shooting an image.

Monitor Screen when Shooting Snapshots

The image that appears on the monitor screen is for image composition. The actual image will be recorded at the quality set for the image quality setting.

Subject brightness conditions can cause monitor screen response to slow and can cause digital noise in the monitor screen image.

Shooting a very bright subject can cause a vertical band to appear in the monitor screen image. This does not indicate malfunction. The band will not be recorded in a snapshot, but will be recorded in the case of a movie.

Shooting Indoors under Fluorescent Lighting

Minute flickering of fluorescent lighting can affect the brightness or color of an image.

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