Taking Still Pictures

Taking Pictures

The Optio VS20 features a wide range of shooting modes and functions to suit almost any subject or scene. This chapter describes how to take pictures with the most commonly used standard settings (the factory default settings).

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Power switch

Zoom lever

Shutter release button

Zoom lever for vertical

shooting

Shutter release button for vertical shooting

1 Press the power switch.

The camera turns on and is ready to take still pictures. In this manual, this is called Still Picture Capture Mode.

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Confirm the subject and shooting

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information on the display.

 

 

The focus frame in the middle of the display indicates the zone of automatic focusing.

When the camera detects a face, the Face Detection function is activated and the face detection frame appears (p.69).

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Focus frame

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Face detection frame

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