Basic Camera Setup: The Setup Menu

gVibration Reduction

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Menus Setup and Playback Shooting,

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Choose a vibration reduction option for shooting.

Vibration reduction effectively reduces blur caused by slight hand movement known as camera shake, which commonly occurs when shooting with zoom applied or at slow shutter speeds. The effects of camera shake are reduced when recording movies, in addition to when taking still pictures.

Set Vibration reduction to Off when using a tripod to stabilize the camera during shooting.

On (hybrid)

The effects of camera shake are reduced optically using a lens-shift method. Additional image processing with electronic vibration reduction is applied to further reduce the effects of camera shake with recording of still pictures taken under the following conditions.

•When the flash does not fire

•When a shutter speed slower than 1/60 seconds is used

•When Self-timeris disabled

•When Continuous is set to Single

•When ISO sensitivity is set to 200 or less

On (default setting)

The vibration reduction method using the lens-shift method only is enabled.

Off

Vibration reduction is not enabled.

The current vibration reduction setting can be confirmed in the camera monitor with shooting (A8, 23). When Off is selected, no icon is displayed.

BNotes on Vibration Reduction

•Vibration reduction may take a few seconds to activate after the power is turned on, or the camera enters shooting mode from playback mode. Wait until the image of the monitor stabilizes before shooting.

•Due to characteristics of the vibration reduction function, images displayed in the camera’s monitor immediately after shooting may be displayed blurry.

•Vibration reduction may be unable to completely eliminate the effects of camera shake in some situations.

•Image processing with electronic vibration reduction may not perform as expected with very slight or extreme camera shake, even when On (hybrid) is selected.

•Image processing with electronic vibration reduction is not enabled at fast or extremely slow shutter speeds, even when On (hybrid) is selected.

•When On (hybrid) is selected and electronic vibration reduction is activated, the shutter is

automatically released twice when a picture is taken to allow for image processing. Therefore, the time required to record pictures increases. Shutter sound (A129) can be heard only when the shutter is released the first time and a single picture will be recorded.