BASIC IMAGE RECORDING

Using the Optical Viewfinder

You can conserve battery power by turning off the camera’s monitor screen (page 30) and using the optical viewfinder to compose images. The optical viewfinder also comes in handy when shooting in areas where the monitor screen is difficult to view because available lighting is dim, etc.

IMPORTANT!

•The visible area framed by the viewfinder shows the image that would be recorded at a distance of about one meter (3.3˝). When recording a subject that is closer to you than one meter, the recorded image will be lower than what you can see inside the viewfinder area.

Optical viewfinder

Area recorded at

Area visible in

distances less than

the viewfinder

one meter (3.3˝)

 

•Since the monitor screen shows exactly what will be recorded, always use it for composing images in the Macro and Manual Focus modes.

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