PHOTOGRAPHY MODE TAKING PICTURES (B AUTO MODE)

5

N 10

 

AF frame

Use the LCD monitor to frame the shot so that the subject fills the entire AF (Autofocus) frame.

! The image shown on the LCD monitor before the picture is taken may differ in brightness, color, etc. from the image actually recorded. Play back the recorded image to check it (P.26).

INDICATOR LAMP DISPLAY

Display

Status

Lit green

Locking the focus

 

 

Blinking green

Camera shake warning, AF warning or AE warning (ready to shoot)

 

 

Blinking green and

Recording to xD-Picture Card or internal memory (ready to shoot)

orange alternately

 

 

 

Lit orange

Recording to xD-Picture Card or internal memory (not ready)

 

 

Blinking orange

Charging the flash (flash will not fire)

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Press the shutter button down halfway. When a

Bebeep

short double-beep is heard, the camera focuses on

your subject. The AF frame on the LCD monitor

 

 

 

 

becomes smaller and the camera sets the

 

 

exposure (brightness). The indicator lamp (green)

 

 

changes from blinking to lit.

! When a short double-beep is not heard and “{” appears on the LCD monitor, the camera cannot focus.

! Pressing the shutter button down halfway freezes the image on the LCD monitor briefly. This image is not the recorded image.

! When “{” appears on the LCD monitor (the shooting condition is too dark to focus on the subjects etc.), press again the shutter button down halfway or try standing about 2 m (6.6 ft.) from your subject to take the picture.

! The flash fires several times (pre-flashes and the main flash).

Before the flash fires, “” appears on the LCD monitor. When selecting a slow shutter speed that will cause camera shake, “” appears on the LCD monitor. Use the flash to take pictures. According to the scene or mode being shot, use a tripod.

Press the shutter button down fully. When a

7clicking sound is heard, the camera records the image.

Click

! There is a slight delay between the shutter button being pressed and the picture being taken. Play back the shot to check the image.

! When pressing the shutter button down fully in one motion, the camera takes the picture without the AF frame changing.

! When the camera takes the picture, the indicator lamp lights orange (shooting disabled).

! When taking a picture using the flash, the image may disappear and go dark briefly due to flash charging. The indicator lamp blinks orange during charging.

! See P.104-105 for information on the warning displays.

Subjects not suitable for autofocus

FinePix F470 uses a high-precision autofocusing mechanism. However, it may have difficulty focusing on the following:

Blinking red

i Warnings for xD-Picture Card and internal memory

 

Card not formatted, incorrect format, memory full, xD-Picture Card or internal memory error

 

i Lens operation error

 

 

 

Detailed warning messages appear on the LCD monitor (P.104-105).

NUMBER OF AVAILABLE FRAMES

N 10

The number of available frames appears on the

LCD monitor.

 

2

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

! See P.41 for information on changing the quality setting.

Using

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

! The default quality “˘” set at shipment is “5 N”.

the

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Standard number of frames per xD-Picture Card / internal memory

 

 

Camera

 

 

 

The table below shows the standard number of frames for internal memory or a new xD-Picture Card formatted on the

 

camera. The larger the xD-Picture Card capacity, the bigger the difference between the actual number of frames and the

 

number shown here. Also, the size of an image file varies depending on the subject. So the number of remaining shots may

 

decrease by 2 or may remain the same. For this reason, the number displayed may not show the actual number of frames.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Quality setting

 

 

5F

5N

 

3

2

`

 

 

Number of recorded pixels

 

 

 

 

2816 2112

 

2816 1880

2048 1536

1600 1200

640 480

 

 

Internal memory (approx. 16 MB)

 

5

10

 

12

20

25

124

 

 

DPC-16 (16 MB)

 

5

10

 

12

20

25

124

 

 

DPC-32 (32 MB)

 

10

21

 

24

40

51

249

 

 

DPC-64 (64 MB)

 

21

43

 

48

81

102

499

 

 

DPC-128 (128 MB)

 

43

86

 

97

163

204

999

 

 

DPC-256/M256 (256 MB)

 

87

173

 

195

326

410

1999

 

 

DPC-512/M512 (512 MB)

 

174

347

 

389

652

819

3995

 

 

DPC-M1GB (1 GB)

 

349

695

 

780

1305

1640

7996

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

h Very shiny subjects such as a mirror or car

 

body

 

h Subjects photographed through glass

 

h Subjects that do not reflect well, such as hair

 

or fur

 

h Subjects with no substance, such as smoke or

 

flames

 

h Dark subjects

 

h Fast moving subjects

 

h Subjects with little or no contrast between the

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subject and the background (such as white

 

walls or subjects dressed in the same color as the background)

h Shots where another high-contrast object (not the subject) is close to the AF frame and is either closer or further away than your subject (such as a shot of someone against a background with strongly contrasting elements)

For such subjects use AF/AE lock (P.24).

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