Tapping the Monitor to Release the Shutter (Touch Shutter)

BNotes on Touch Shutter

•When taking pictures with Continuous or BSS in Continuous setting (A 53) enabled, or in Sports or Museum scene mode (A 59), use the shutter-release button to take pictures. Only one picture can be taken at a time using the touch shutter function.

•Prevent shooting with accidental tapping of the monitor in A(auto) mode and some scene modes by changing the touch shooting setting to Touch AF/AE (A 37). At this setting, the shutter is not released when the monitor is tapped.

•In some rare cases, shooting subjects with which autofocus may not perform as expected, the subject may not be in focus (A 31).

•When a subject displayed in the monitor is tapped with the self-timer (A 44) enabled, the camera locks focus and releases the shutter after ten or two seconds.

CShooting Modes That Support Touch Shutter

Touch shutter can be enabled in shooting modes other than A(auto) mode as well. Touch shutter operation differs according to the current shooting mode as follows.

Shooting mode

Touch shutter operation

A(auto) mode (A 26),

Tap the intended subject. Focus and exposure are set for the

Sports, Party/indoor,

area tapped. When the camera recognizes more than one

Beach/snow, Close-up,Food,

face, tap a face framed by a single border to set focus and

Museum, Copy, and Backlight

exposure for that face.

scene modes (A59)

 

 

• When the camera recognizes a face, focus and exposure are

Scene auto selector scene

set for the area framed by the double border. When the

mode (A 59) and smart

camera recognizes more than one face, tap a face framed

portrait mode (when Smile

by a single border to set focus and exposure for that face.

timer is set to Off; A72)

• When no face is recognized, the camera focuses at the area

 

tapped.

 

Only a border displayed by the face priority function can be

Portrait and Night portrait

selected. When the camera recognizes more than one face,

scene modes (A59)

tap a face framed by a single border to set focus and exposure

 

for that face.

Landscape, Sunset,

Focus and exposure are set for the same focus area used

Dusk/dawn, Night landscape,

when pictures are taken by pressing the shutter-release

Fireworks show, and

button. See “Selecting a Scene Mode to Take Pictures

Panorama assist scene modes

(Features)” (A 62) for more information.

(A59)

 

Smart portrait mode

Touch shutter cannot be enabled. When the camera

(when Smile timer set to On;

recognizes more than one face, tap a face framed by a single

A 72)

border to move the focus area to that face.

 

 

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