Selecting Scenes for Shooting (Scene Mode)

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Shooting in the Scene Selected by the Camera (Scene Auto Selector)

By simply framing a picture, the camera automatically selects the optimum scene mode for simpler shooting. When the camera is aimed at a subject in xScene auto selector mode, the camera automatically selects one of the following scene modes.

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Auto (general shooting)

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Night landscape (A51)

• Portrait (A48)

• Close-up (A52)

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Landscape (A48)

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Backlighting (A55)

•Night portrait (A49)

1Rotate the mode dial to y.

2Press the dbutton to display the scene menu, choose xScene

auto selector with the rotary multi selector and press the kbutton.

•Scene auto selector is enabled.

•When the built-in flash is not raised, the message The flash is lowered. is displayed.

Scene menu

Scene auto selector

Portrait

Landscape

Sports

Night portrait

Party/indoor

Beach

•Press the K(flash pop-up) button to raise the built-in flash.

3 Frame the subject and take the picture.

• When the camera automatically selects a scene mode, the shooting mode icon changes to that for the scene mode currently enabled.

d: Auto mode

g: Night landscape

 

e: Portrait

i: Close-up

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f: Landscapej: Backlighting

h: Night portrait

•Press the shutter-release button halfway to set the focus and exposure. When the subject is in focus, the focus area (active focus area) lights in green.

46• Press the shutter-release button the rest of the way down to take the picture.