Using the Basic Shooting Functions

Photography Basic

rTapping the Monitor to Focus (Touch AF/AE)

The touch shooting setting can be changed from Touch shutter (default setting) to Touch AF/AE.

Tap a subject in the monitor to select the area at which the camera focuses. Press the shutter-release button halfway to lock focus and exposure for the area tapped, and press the shutter-release button the rest of the way down to take the picture.

1Tap the bottom tab to display the setting controls (A16) and tap the touch shooting icon.

OFF

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(Easy GPlayback: and

2Tap r(touch AF/AE).

Tap Jto return to the previous screen.

To hide the setting controls after applying the setting, tap the tab again.

Touch shooting

Touch AF/AE

Mode Auto)

3 Tap the subject at which the camera focuses.

When a face is detected in G(easy auto) mode, faces

 

other than the one surrounded by the frame cannot be

 

tapped. When multiple faces are detected, tap a face

 

framed by a single border to move the focus area to that

 

face.

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When no face is detected, the camera focuses on the area

 

that is tapped.

 

uor a double border will be displayed at the area tapped.

When digital zoom is applied, the focus area cannot be selected.

To cancel the focus area selection, tap adisplayed at left in the monitor.

If a position at which focus cannot be acquired is tapped, Xwill be displayed in the monitor. Tap another position inside X.

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