Basic Shooting Functions

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.

Photography Basic

1Tap the bottom tab to display the setting controls (A12) and tap the touch shooting icon.

The menu of the touch shooting setting is displayed in the monitor.

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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

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3 Tap the subject at which the camera focuses.

When faces are detected in G(easy auto)

 

mode, only those faces surrounded by the

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subject. When multiple faces are detected, tap

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a face framed by a single border to move the

 

focus area to that face.

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 in effect, the focus area cannot be selected.

To cancel the focus area selection, tap adisplayed at the left side of 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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