Taking still pictures
• Press the shutter button gently using the ball of your finger. If it is pressed hard, the camera may move and pictures may come out blurred.
•Never open the card cover, remove the batteries or disconnect the AC adapter while the orange lamp is blinking. Doing so could destroy stored pictures and prevent storage of pictures you have just taken.
Comparison of the viewfinder & monitor
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| Viewfinder | Monitor |
Shooting |
| Camera shake does not | You can check the picture |
| bright places. Little battery | accurately. | |
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| occur easily and subjects | area that the camera |
basics | Advantages | can be seen clearly even in | actually records more |
| When close to a subject, | Camera shake can occur | |
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| power is used. |
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| the image in the viewfinder | easily and subjects may be |
| Disadvantages | is a little different from the | difficult to see in bright/dark |
| picture that the camera | places. The monitor uses | |
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| actually records. | more battery power than |
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| the viewfinder. |
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| Use the viewfinder for | Use the monitor when you |
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| general snapshots | need to know the exact |
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| (landscape pictures, casual | area the camera records, or |
| Tips | shots, etc.) or when taking | when you want to shoot a |
| several pictures in a row | close subject such as a | |
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| (approx. 0.5 m/1.6 ft - ∞ ). | |
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| (approx. 0.2 m - 0.5 m/0.7 ft |
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| - 1.6 ft). |
•The camera records a wider area than the image in the viewfinder.
•As you get closer to the subject, the actual image recorded becomes lower than the one in the viewfinder (see left).
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