3.Half-press the shutter button.

The camera will focus the image in accordance with your setting.

•The shutter speed and aperture value on the monitor screen will turn orange when you half-press the shutter button if the image is over-exposed or under-exposed.

4.When the image is focused, press the shutter button the rest of the way to shoot.

■Shooting with Manual Exposure Settings (M mode)

The following shows the ranges for the shutter speed and aperture settings you can configure in the M mode.

Shutter Speed

Slower

 

 

Faster

 

 

 

 

 

60 seconds

 

 

1/800 second

 

 

 

 

 

Movement

Blurred

 

 

Frozen

 

 

 

 

 

 

Aperture (Zoom

Wider

 

 

Narrower

 

 

at full wide

 

 

 

 

F3.4

 

 

F4.6/F9.2*

angle)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Focus range

Narrow

 

 

Wide

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

*The camera has a built-in ND filter to limit exposure. F9.2 is the aperture when the ND filter is being used.

NOTE

•Manual exposure is performed as if the “ISO” setting (page

131)is “ISO 64”, regardless of the current “ISO” setting.

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