5.Press the shutter button the rest of the way down and a slide cursor will appear on the monitor screen. Slowly move the camera in the direction indicated by the arrow on the screen until the slide cursor reaches the other end of its movement range (i.e. all the way to the right when moving the camera to

the right).

Slide cursor

•The camera will start composing the panorama

image internally when the slide cursor reached the other end of the movement range.

•Image composing also will start automatically if you stop moving the camera during panorama shooting. After you stop moving the camera, the message “Busy... Please wait...” appears as the camera processes the image. Wait until this message disappears before using the camera. Image shooting is disabled while the message is displayed.

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.

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Recording Images