OTHER RECORDING FUNCTIONS

3. Use [ ] and][ to select the Auto Focus area

 

you want, and then press [SET].

 

Using the Macro Mode

 

 

The Macro mode lets you focus automatically on close up

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

subjects. The automatic focus operation starts when you

 

For this type of Auto Focus area:

Select this:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

press the shutter release button down half way. The

 

Very limited range in the center of the

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

following is the focus range in the Macro mode.

 

screen

 

 

Spot

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

• This setting works well with focus lock

 

 

Range: Approximately 10cm to 70cm (3˝.9to 27.6˝)

 

 

 

 

 

 

(page 70).

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Automatic selection of the focus area where

 

 

 

 

1. Keep pressing [ ] ( ) until the focus mo

 

the subject closest to the camera is located

 

 

 

 

 

• With this setting, a wide focus frame,

 

 

 

 

indicator shows“ ”.

 

which contains seven focus points,

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

appears on the monitor screen first. When

 

 

 

 

2. Record the image.

 

you press the shutter release button half

Multi

 

 

 

way, the camera automatically selects the

 

 

 

 

• The focus and image recording operations are

 

focus point where the subject closest to

 

 

 

 

identical to those in the Auto Focus mode.

 

the camera is located, and a focus frame

 

 

 

 

• You can tell whether the image is focused by

 

appears at that point.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

• This setting works well for group photos.

 

 

 

 

observing the focus frame and the green operation

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

lamp. The indications of the focus frame and green

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

• Spot• Multi

 

 

 

 

operation lamp are the same as those in the Auto

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Focus mode.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

IMPORTANT!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

• In the Macro mode, the optical zoom range is 1X to

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1.2X.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Focus frame

 

Focus frame

 

 

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