NEW WAY iA Mode Helps You Get Beautiful Shots Anytime, Anyplace

iA mode can make all the right settings – automatically

If you've resisted buying a digital SLR camera because you think they're

hard to use, your wait is over. Meet

the G1, with iA (Intelligent Auto) mode. This mode activates six detection and compensation functions that work automatically, leaving you free to just aim and shoot. It's easier to get a beautiful shot anytime, anyplace.

Face detection - Face Detection AF/AE

The camera detects when there are faces in the frame and adjusts the focus and exposure to capture them properly. This allows you to shoot beautiful portraits without any hassle.

Face Detection AF/AE

Light detection - Intelligent Exposure

The camera can correct the brightness in parts of the image that are too dark due to insuffi cient lighting, backlighting or use of the flash.

Intelligent Exposure

Contrast AF helps make Full-time Live View even more effective

The G1 not only gives you the advantages of Full-time Live View, it also adds contrast AF for even easier, more accurate focusing. These technologies make possible a variety of convenient functions

-such as Face Detection AF and AF Tracking - that digital SLR cameras with phase difference AF systems cannot offer.

Versatile 1-area auto focus for finer focusing precision

Shake detection - MEGA O.I.S.

Gyrosensors built into the lens detect hand-shake and an O.I.S. shifts to compensate. Assisting you in getting those clear, beautiful, blur-free photos.

MEGA O.I.S. OFF

MEGA O.I.S. ON

Motion detection - Intelligent ISO Control

If the subject moves as you snap the shot, the camera automatically adjusts the ISO sensitivity and shutter speed to help prevent subject blur.

Normal ISO Auto Intelligent ISO Control

Scene detection - Intelligent Scene Selector

The camera automatically selects whichever of five Scene modes

– Portrait, Night Portrait, Scenery, Night Scenery, and Close-up – best suits the situation.

Digital Red-Eye Correction

The red-eye correction in the built-in fl ash and the camera's image processing circuit work together to reduce red-eye when you're using the fl ash to take shots of people.

Subject detection - AF Tracking

Once you've focused on a subject, AF Tracking keeps the subject in focus – even if it moves – until you press the shutter button.

* For use in iA mode, AF Tracking must be selected in advance.

Auto Backlight Compensation

When set to iA mode, the auto backlight compensation function activates whenever the camera detects that the light source is behind the subject. It gives you pictures with a wide dynamic range even in high contrast situations.

When using 1-area AF mode, you can move the auto-focusing area in the frame. You can also change the size of focus area to Spot, Normal, L, or XL to fine-tune the focusing in complicated shooting compositions.

23 AF areas cover more of the frame

The auto focus system is keyed to 23 areas all around the frame, automatically assuring the optimal AF operation for any scene you're shooting.

*This is a simulated image. All 23 AF areas are not simultaneously displayed in fact.

Quick AF: Focusing starts as soon as you aim the camera

The camera begins focusing the instant it determines you're in a shooting stance. This system focuses quicker than the usual method of pressing the shutter button halfway, so you're ready sooner to capture the moment.

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