Setup Menu

Vibration Reduction

Press the dbutton Mz (Setup menu) (A186) MVibration reduction

Specify the vibration reduction setting for taking still pictures. Correct blur, caused by slight hand movement known as camera shake, that commonly occurs when shooting with zoom applied or at slow shutter speeds.

When the camera is stabilized for shooting with a tripod, set vibration reduction to

Off.

VOn (hybrid)

Records with optical compensation for camera shake during still picture shooting using the image sensor shift method, and under the following conditions, also performs electronic VR using image enhancement.

When the flash does not fire

When the shutter speed is slower than 1/30 second (wide-angle position) and 1/250 second (telephoto position).

When the self-timer is off

When Single is selected for the continuous setting

When Off is selected for the Exposure bracketing setting

When the ISO sensitivity is 200 or less

gOn (default setting)

Compensates for camera shake during still picture shooting using the image sensor shift method. The camera automatically detects the panning direction and only corrects for vibration caused by camera shake.

When the camera is panned horizontally, for example, vibration reduction only reduces vertical shake. If the camera is panned vertically, vibration reduction only compensates for horizontal shake.

kOff

Vibration reduction is not enabled.

When vibration reduction is enabled, the current setting is displayed during shooting (A8, 29). When Off is selected, an icon for the current setting is not displayed.

DCompensating Movies with Electronic VR

To reduce the effects of camera shake when recording movies, enable Electronic VR (A167) from the movie menu (A163).

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