Step 3: Frame the Photograph

1Ready the camera.

When framing photographs in the viewfinder, hold the handgrip in your right hand and cradle the camera body or lens with your left. Keep your elbows propped lightly against your torso for support and place one foot half a pace ahead of the other to keep your upper body stable. When framing photographs in portrait (tall) orientation, hold the camera as shown in the bottom of the three illustrations at right.

In jmode, shutter speeds slow when lighting is poor; use of a tripod is recommended.

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2Frame the photograph.

Frame a photograph in the viewfinder with the main subject in the AF area brackets.

AF area brackets

AUsing a Zoom Lens

Use the zoom ring to zoom in on the subject so that it fills a

Zoom in

larger area of the frame, or zoom out to increase the area

 

visible in the final photograph (select longer focal lengths

Zoom ring

on the lens focal length scale to zoom in, shorter focal

 

lengths to zoom out).

 

 

Zoom out

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