Shooting with High Speed Night Scene

(High Speed Night Scene/High Speed Night Scene and Portrait)

With High Speed Night Scene and High Speed Night Scene and Portrait, the camera detects automatically whether it is being hand-held or on a tripod. If the camera detects it is being hand-held, pressing the shutter button will record a series of images and combine them in a way that minimizes image blur due to low light conditions. If the camera detects it is on a tripod, it will shoot a single image using a longer exposure time (instead of shooting and combining multiple images), which results in an even clearer image. The flash is always disabled while “High Speed Night Scene” is selected. If the night scene image you are shooting includes people, use the “High Speed Night Scene and Portrait” BEST SHOT scene. The flash mode setting becomes > (Auto Flash) when shooting with “High Speed Night Scene and Portrait”.

1.In the REC mode, press Õ (Continuous Shutter).

2.Select “High Speed Night Scene” or “High Speed Night Scene and Portrait” and then press [SET].

3.When you are ready to shoot, press the shutter button.

•After you press the shutter button, the message “Busy... Please wait...” will appear on the monitor screen to indicate that recording is in progress. Keep the camera still while this message is displayed. The recording process takes some time to complete after the message appears. Image shooting is disabled while the message is displayed.

NOTE

•When holding the camera by hand while shooting with these BEST SHOT scenes, make sure that the subjects remain as still as possible as the camera shoots the series of images.

•Even when holding the camera by hand while shooting with “High Speed Night Scene and Portrait”, under certain conditions the camera may shoot only a single image instead of a series of images.

•Shooting with this BEST SHOT scene makes the shooting range narrower than normal.

•Movement while the camera is mounted on a tripod may cause the camera to erroneously judge it is being hand held.

•If surroundings are extremely dark when shooting with “High Speed Night Scene” or “High Speed Night Scene and Portrait”, the camera may not be able to shoot at proper brightness due to insufficient exposure.

•When shooting with these BEST SHOT scenes, the “ISO Sensitivity” setting is fixed at “AUTO”.

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Using BEST SHOT