Shooting Options: The Shooting Menu

Menus Setup and Playback Shooting,

CContinuous

Motion is captured in a series of pictures. [Continuous] and [BSS] settings can be applied. If any setting other than [Single] is applied, flash mode is set to off. Focus, exposure and white balance are fixed at the values for the first picture in each series.

USingle (default setting)

One shot is taken each time shutter-release button is pressed.

VContinuous

While the shutter-release button is held down, pictures are taken at rate of about 1.5 frames per second (fps). When image mode is set to [dNormal (3072)], about 6 pictures can be taken.

jBest Shot Selector (BSS)

The “best shot selector” is recommended when shooting with the flash off or the camera zoomed in, or in other situations in which inadvertent motion can result in blurred pictures. When BSS is on, the camera takes up to ten pictures while the shutter-release button is held down. The sharpest picture in the series is automatically selected and saved.

WMulti-shot 16

Each time shutter-release button is pressed, camera takes 16

shots at about 1.8 frames per second and arranges them in a single picture with image-mode setting eNormal (2592).

At settings other than [Single], the indicator for the current setting is displayed in the monitor (A6).

CNote on Continuous Shooting

The maximum frame rate with continuous shooting may vary, depending upon the current image mode setting and the memory card used.

BNote on Best Shot Selector

BSS may not produce the desired results if the subject moves or the composition changes while the

70shutter-release button is pressed all the way down.