Basic

■When you want to take a picture of a subject outside the AF area (AF/AELock)

When recording a picture of people with a composition like the following picture, you will not be able to focus the camera on the subject because the people are outside the AF area.

In this case,

1� Aim the AF area at the subject.

2� Press the shutter button halfway to fix the focus and the exposure.

•The focus indication lights when the subject is focused.

3� Press and hold the shutter button halfway while moving the camera as you compose the picture.

4� Press the shutter button fully.

•You can repeatedly retry AF/AE lock before pressing the shutter button fully.

■Direction detection function

If you take pictures by holding the camera vertically, the information of the rotation on the pictures is automatically added and recorded to the pictures.

When [ROTATE DISP.] (P81) is set to [ON], you can rotate and display pictures on the screen or the TV according to the information of the rotation on the pictures.

•This function may not work properly on pictures recorded by aiming the camera up or down.

•Motion pictures taken with the camera held vertically are not displayed vertically.

■Preventing jitter (camera shake)

•Be careful of jittering when pressing the shutter button.

•The jitter alert 1 appears when the shutter speed is slow and the chances of blurring are greater.

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•When the jitter alert appears, use a tripod for best results. By combining the use of a tripod with the self-timer (P43), you can avoid blurring caused when you press the shutter button.

•Shutter speed will be slower particularly in the following cases. Keep the camera still from the moment the shutter button is pressed until the picture appears on the screen. We recommend using a tripod.

–[NIGHT PORTRAIT], [NIGHT SCENERY], [PARTY], [CANDLE LIGHT], [STARRY SKY], [FIREWORKS] mode

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