Shooting Options: The Shooting Menu

Menus Setup and Playback Shooting,

CContinuous

Set to A(auto) 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, the camera shoots up to 5 pictures at a rate of up to about 0.9 frames per second (fps) (when image mode is set to INormal (4000)).

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 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 the shutter-release button is pressed all the way down, 16 pictures are shot at about 24 frames per second and the camera arranges them in a single picture.

Images are captured with the image mode locked at L2592.

Digital zoom is not available.

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

BNote on Continuous Shooting

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

This feature cannot be used simultaneously with certain features. “Functions that Cannot Be Applied Simultaneously“ (A105)

BNote on BSS

BSS may not produce the desired results if the subject moves or the composition changes while the shutter-release button is pressed all the way down.

BNote on Multi-shot 16

Smear (A136) visible in the monitor when shooting with Multi-shotwith images. Avoiding bright objects such as the sun, reflections of the

98shooting with Multi-shot 16 enabled is recommended.

16 enabled will be recorded sun, and electric lights when