Snapshot Shooting Precautions

Operation

•Never open the battery cover while the back lamp is flashing green. Doing so can result in the image you just shot being saved incorrectly, damage to other images stored in memory, malfunction of the camera, etc.

•If unwanted light is shining directly onto the lens, shade the lens with your hand.

Monitor Screen when Shooting Snapshots

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

•The image that appears on the monitor screen is for image composition. The actual image will be recorded in accordance with the currently selected recording mode (page 36).

Shooting Indoors under Fluorescent Lighting

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

Auto Focus Restrictions

•Any of the following can make proper focus impossible.

–Solid color wall or other very low contrast subject

–Strongly back lit subject

–Very shiny subject

–Blinds or other subject with a repeating horizontal pattern

–Multiple subjects at varying distances from the camera

–Subject in a dark location

–Subject that is too far away for light from the AF assist lamp to reach

–Camera movement while shooting

–Fast-moving subject

–Subjects outside the focus range of the camera

•If you cannot focus properly, try using focus lock (page 59) or Manual Focus (page 58).

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