Recording pictures (basic)
Optical Image Stabilizer
This mode recognizes and compensates jitter. You can reduce blurring caused by jitter especially when you take pictures with the optical zoom set to Tele or when you take pictures indoors where the shutter speed is slowed down.
A: Optical image stabilizer button
1 Press the optical image stabilizer button A until [STABILIZER] appears and then select the stabilizer function mode.
STABILIZER
OFF
MODE1 
MODE2
SELECT
DEMO. MENU SET 
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∫Demonstration of the optical image stabilizer (Demonstration Mode)
When you press the [MENU] button, the demonstration appears. After the demonstration ends, the screen returns to the stabilizer function mode selection menu. If you want to exit the demonstration halfway through, press the [MENU] button again.
While the demonstration is displayed, the optical zoom is fixed to Wide (1k) and the zoom function cannot be activated.
Moreover, you cannot take pictures.
•The stabilizer function may not work sufficiently in the following cases.
–When too much jitter occurs.
–In digital zoom range.
–When taking pictures while following subjects in motion.
–When the shutter speed is extremely slow due to dark conditions or other
reasons.
Be careful of jittering when pressing the shutter button.
•In simple mode [
], the stabilizer function mode is fixed to [MODE1] and the
stabilizer function menu does not appear.
•In motion image mode [
], [MODE2] cannot be set.
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