Features Shooting

JUnderwater face framing

•You can take pictures of human faces underwater automatically without submerging your face.

•When Underwater face framing is set, the waterproofing-related messages

are displayed.

Confirm each message and press the multi selector Kto display the next message. Press flexible button 4 (O) to skip the messages and change to the shooting screen.

•See “<Important> Shockproof, Waterproof, Dustproof, Condensation” (Ax-xv)for more information about using the camera underwater.

•When the shutter-release button is pressed all the way while the shooting screen is displayed, automatic shooting begins. Submerge the camera into the water, and point it at a human face underwater. When the camera detects a human face, the power-on lamp and self-timer lamp flash, and the shutter is automatically released. When the shutter is released, the lamps flash quickly.

•Press the shutter-release button all the way again to stop shooting. When four images are captured or the camera remains in automatic shooting mode for about 30 seconds, shooting ends automatically.

•When shooting ends, the captured images are displayed in the monitor. Press flexible button 4 (O) to return to the shooting screen.

•The zoom position is fixed at wide-angle position.

•The flash is set to yFlash off, but the setting can be changed (A23).

•The self-timer is not available (A24).

•The camera may not be able to detect faces depending on the clarity of the water or the shape of the goggles used.

OShoot at intervals

•The camera can automatically capture still images at pre-determined intervals. Images captured in one shooting are saved in one folder and can be viewed in a slide show (A67).

•Press flexible button 2 (dShoot every 30 seconds), flexible button 3

(eShoot once a minute), or flexible button 4 (fShoot every 5 minutes) to set the shooting interval.

•The maximum number of images that can be captured depends on the selected interval.

-Shoot every 30 seconds: Approx. 280 images

-Shoot once a minute: Approx. 140 images

-Shoot every 5 minutes: Approx. 30 images

•Use a sufficiently charged battery to prevent the camera from turning off during shooting.

•Press the shutter-release button all the way down to capture the first image. In between each shot, the monitor turns off and the power-on lamp flashes. The monitor automatically turns on again just before the next image is captured.

•Press the shutter-release button halfway to stop shooting.

•The flash is set to wAuto flash, but the setting can be changed (A23).

•The self-timer is not available (A24).

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