Shooting Options: The Shooting Menu

Menus Setup and Playback Shooting,

CContinuous

Set A(Auto) mode (A27) Md(shooting menu) MCContinuous

Change settings to Continuous or BSS (best shot selector).

Flash will be switched off for Continuous, BSS or Multi-shot 16, and 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 all the way, the camera shoots up to three images at a rate of about 0.7 frames per second (fps) (when image mode is set to R4320 × 3240).

DBSS (Best Shot Selector)

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 10 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 the shutter-release button is pressed all the way down, 16 pictures are shot at about 30 frames per second (fps) and the camera arranges them in a single picture.

Images are captured with the image mode fixed at L(image size is 2560×1920).

Digital zoom cannot be applied.

The icon for the current setting is displayed in the monitor when the camera is in shooting mode (A6). No icon is displayed when Single is selected.

BNote on Continuous Shooting

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

•This feature cannot be used simultaneously with certain features. ➝“Camera Settings that Cannot Be Set at the Same Time” (A78)

BNote on BSS

BSS is best suited to situations where the subject is not moving. BSS may not produce the desired results if the subject moves or if the composition is changed while the shutter-release button is

76pressed all the way down.