AF Tracking Function, Compensating the Exposure

Basic

Note

•Due to conditions such as the ones below, a different scene may be identified for the same subject.

–Subject conditions: When the face is bright or dark, The size of the subject, The distance to the subject, The contrast of the subject, When the subject is moving

–Recording conditions: Sunset, Sunrise, Under low brightness conditions, When the camera is shaken, When zoom is used

•To take pictures in an intended scene, it is recommended that you take pictures in the appropriate recording mode.

∫The Backlight Compensation

Backlight refers to when light comes from the back of a subject.

In this case, the subject will become dark, so this function compensates the backlight by brightening the whole of the picture automatically.

Backlight compensation is automatically applied in Intelligent auto mode.

AF Tracking Function

It is possible to set the focus and exposure to the specified subject. Focus and exposure will keep following the subject automatically even if it moves.

1 Press 2.

•	[	] is displayed in the lower left of the screen.
•	AF Tracking frame is displayed in the center of the
	screen.

•Press 2 again to cancel.

2 Place the subject in the Tracking frame, and press the shutter button halfway to lock the subject.

•AF tracking frame will turn yellow.

•An optimum scene for the specified subject will be chosen.

•Press 2 to cancel.

Compensating the Exposure

You can compensate the exposure.

Refer to P63 for details.

1 Press the front dial to switch to exposure compensation operation.

2 Rotate the front dial.

•The exposure compensation value appears on the

lower portion of the screen.

• Select [0] to return to the original exposure.

About the flash

•Open the flash when the flash is to be used. (P58)

• [

], [

], or [

] will appear depending on the type and brightness of the subject.

•Flash is activated twice. Especially with [ ] or [ ], digital red-eye reduction (P59) is executed, and the time until the second flash is longer, so subject should not move until the second flash is activated.