BASIC IMAGE RECORDING

■About Red-eye Reduction

Using the flash to record at night or in a dimly lit room can cause red spots inside the eyes of people who are in the image. This is caused when the light from the flash reflects off of the retina of the eye. When red-eye reduction is selected as the flash mode, the camera performs two pre-flash operations, one designed to cause the irises in the eyes of any people in the image to close, and one for the Auto Focus operation. This is followed by another flash operation for actual recording of the image.

IMPORTANT!

Note the following important points when using red-eye reduction.

•Red-eye reduction does not work unless the people in the image are looking directly at the camera during the pre-flash or AF assist lamp flash operation. Before pressing the shutter release button, call out to the sub- jects so they all look at the camera while one of the pre-flash operations is performed.

•Red-eye reduction may not work very well if the sub- jects are located far away from the camera.

Flash Unit Status

You can find out the current flash unit status by pressing the shutter release button half way and checking the monitor screen and red operation lamp.

The

indicator is also

 

shown on the monitor

Red operation lamp*

screen when the flash unit

is ready to fire.

 

* Red operation lamp

When the red operation

It means this:

lamp is this:

 

Flashing

Flash unit is charging

 

 

Lit

Flash unit is ready to fire

 

 

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