It is automatically set to the following modes depending on the objects and recording conditions.
Mode | Scene/Effect |
Portrait | When the object is |
| a person |
| Faces are detected |
| automatically, and |
| the brightness is |
| adjusted so it is |
| recorded clearly. |
Scenery | Recording outdoors |
| The whole landscape |
| will be recorded |
| vividly without whiting |
| out the background |
| sky, which may be |
| very bright. |
Spotlight | Under a spotlight |
| Very bright object is |
| recorded clearly. |
Low light | Dark room or |
| twilight |
| It can record clearly |
| even in a dark room |
| or twilight. |
Normal | Other situations |
| Brightness and |
| colour balance are |
| adjusted |
| automatically for |
| clear image. |
≥Due to conditions, a different mode may be identified for the same subject.
≥Modes are selected automatically by the unit, so it may not choose desired mode depending on the recording conditions.
≥Brightness may change suddenly or flicker when set to on.
≥Optical image stabilizer function (l 35) is set to on in all modes.
≥If this is turned to on, the guideline function is disabled.
∫When the intelligent auto mode is set to off
The auto mode icon [ AUTO ] appears.
Colour balance (white balance) and focusing will be adjusted automatically.
jAuto white balance (l 96) jAuto focusing (l 96)
Depending on the brightness of the subject etc., the aperture and shutter speed are automatically adjusted for optimum brightness.
(When set to the video recording mode:
The shutter speed is adjusted to a maximum of 1/350.)
≥Colour balance and focus may not be adjusted automatically depending on light sources or scenes. If so, manually adjust these settings. (l 44)
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