BASIC IMAGE RECORDING

•This causes an image or a message to appear on the monitor screen, and then enters the currently selected recording mode.

•If the camera is in the PLAY mode when it turns on, the message “There are no files.” will appear if you do not have any images stored in memory yet. In

addition, the icon will be visible at the top of the display. If this happens, press [] (REC) to enter the currently selected recording mode.

•You can compose images using either the monitor screen or the optical viewfinder (page 60).

•When using the optical viewfinder to compose images, you can use [DISP] to turn off the monitor screen and conserve battery power.

4.Press the shutter button half way to focus the image.

• When you press the shutter button half way, the camera’s

2.Align the mode dial with “ ” (Snapshot mode) (page 52).

•The (Snapshot mode) icon is displayed on the monitor screen while the Snapshot mode is selected.

Snapshot mode icon

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Focus frame

Auto Focus feature automatically

focuses the image, and displays Shutter button the shutter speed and aperture

values.

• You can tell whether the

Green operation lamp

image is focused by

 

observing the focus frame

 

and the green operation

 

lamp.

 

3.Compose the image on the monitor screen so the main subject is within the focus frame.

•The focusing range of the camera depends on focus mode you are using (page 74).

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