2 Taking Pictures and Recording Video Clips. . . 31

Using Live View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31

Taking Still Pictures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33

Recording Audio with Still Pictures . . . . . . . . . 34

Orientation Sensor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34

Recording Video Clips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35

Auto Focus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37

Focusing on the Subject . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37

Optimizing Focus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38

For the Normal Focus Range . . . . . . . . . . 38

For Macro and Super Macro

Focus Ranges. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39

Using Focus Lock . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40

Optimizing Exposure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40

Other Recommendations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41

Using the Focus Range Settings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42

Using Manual Focus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43

Using Zoom . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44

Optical Zoom . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45

Digital Zoom. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45

Zoom and Focus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46

Setting the Flash . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47

Using the Shooting Modes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49

Noise Reduction for Long Exposures. . . . . . . . 52

Using Panorama Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52

Taking a Panoramic Sequence

of Pictures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53

Using the Manual Shooting Mode . . . . . . . . . 55

Using My Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56

Selecting and Saving Preferred Settings

in My Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56

Using the My Mode Saved Settings

Sub-Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57

Using the Self-Timer Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59

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