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Usingthe Camera
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Bebeep
5
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Check that the lens is clean. If it is dirty, clean the lens as
informed on P.85.
Hold the camera so that your fingers or the strap do
not cover the lens, flash or flash control sensor. If
the lens, flash or flash control sensor is obscured,
the brightness (exposure) of your shot may be
incorrect.
6Press “T (a)” Tele zoom button to zoom in. Press
W (b)” Wide zoom button to zoom out. A zoom
bar appears on the screen.
hOptical zoom focal length
(35 mm camera equivalent)
Approx. 39 mm-234 mm
Max. zoom scale: 6×
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Zooming pauses briefly when the camera changes between
optical zoom and digital zoom (P.25). Press the same zoom
button again to change zoom modes.
Zoom bar
Press the shutter button down halfway. When a
short double-beep is heard, the camera focuses on
your subject. The AF frame on the screen becomes
smaller. The indicator lamp (green) changes from
blinking to lit.
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If the camera does not emit a short double-beep and “{
appears on the screen, the camera cannot focus.
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Pressing the shutter button down halfway freezes the image
on the screen briefly. This is not the recorded image.
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If “{” appears on the screen (e.g. the shot is too dark for
the camera to focus), try standing about 2 m (6.6 ft.) from the
subject to take the picture.
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Use the screen to frame the shot so that the
subject fills the entire AF (Autofocus) frame.
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When the subject is not in the AF frame, use AF/AE lock to
take the picture (P.24).
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The image shown on the screen 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).
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AF frame
Before the flash fires, “” appears on the screen.
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