Step 3 Focus and Shoot

BDuring Recording

While pictures are being recorded, the number of exposures remaining will blink. Do not open the battery-chamber/memory card slot cover while pictures are being recorded. Cutting power or removing the memory card in these circumstances could result in loss of data or in damage to the camera or card.

BAutofocus

Autofocus may not perform as expected in the following situations. In some rare cases, the subject may not be in focus despite the fact that the focus area or the focus indicator glows green:

•Subject is very dark

•Objects of sharply differing brightness are included in the scene (e.g. the sun behind the subject makes that subject appear very dark)

•No contrast between the subject and surroundings (e.g. a portrait subject, wearing a white shirt, is standing in front of a white wall)

•Several objects are at different distances from the camera (e.g. the subject is inside a cage)

•Subject is moving rapidly

In the situations noted above, try pressing the shutter-release button halfway to refocus several times, or focus on another subject and use focus lock (A50). When using focus lock, be sure that the distance between the camera and the subject with which focus was locked is the same as that for the actual subject.

CFlash

•When the flash mode (A30) is set to U(auto; default setting) and the subject is dimly lit, the built-in flash will pop up

automatically when the shutter-release button is pressed halfway, and fire when the shutter-release button is pressed all the way down. Once the flash has popped up, it will fire automatically when the next picture is taken or the shutter- release button is pressed halfway again under dim lighting.

•Select W(off; A30) to prevent the built-in flash from popping up with shooting.

•Gently press the built-in flash down to lower it. Lower the built-in

flash when the camera is not used for shooting.

Mode (Auto) APlayback: and Photography Basic

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