Shooting Modes

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Using the mode dial, you can choose between single-frame, continuous, and self- timer modes.

To choose an operating mode, press the mode-dial lock button and turn the mode dial to the desired setting.

The following modes are available for shooting photographs:

Mode

 

Description

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S

The camera takes one photograph each time the shutter-release button is pressed. The card access lamp will light while photographs are being recorded to the memory card. While photographs are being saved, any new photographs will be stored in a temporary memory buffer before

TINGSHOO MODES

Single-frame

being saved to the card. When this buffer is full, the shutter release will be disabled until enough memory is available in the buffer for the next photograph.

Photographs are taken at a maximum rate of approximately three frames per second while the shutter-release button is held down. Photographs are stored in a temporary memory buffer, which can hold a maximum of

Cnine photographs. Additional photographs can be taken as soon as suffi-

Continuous

 

cient memory is available in the buffer. A maximum of nine photographs

 

 

(or six images at an image-quality setting of RAW) can be taken before

 

 

the buffer fills; if ON is chosen for Custom Setting 36, the maximum is

 

 

six photographs (four RAW images).

 

 

 

 

 

Use this mode to reduce blurring caused by camera shake or to appear

Self-timer

 

in photographs you take yourself.

 

 

 

Shooting Speed (Continuous Mode)

The rate of approximately three frames per second quoted above is the average obtained at a temperature of 20 °C (68 °F) using continuous-servo AF, manual exposure, a shutter speed of 1/250 s or faster, and an aperture smaller than the maximum aperture.

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