USING THE BUILT-IN FLASH

•This function works only in Photo mode. page 17

•You can take natural looking flash photo images with appropriate illumination using the built-in flash, whether they are night scenes, indoors or in other dark places.

Press the Flash ( ) button.

•Each time you press the Flash ( ) button, flash mode is changed to; Auto (), Red- eye (), Fill in (), Slow sync (), or Off ().

•The built-in flash opens and operates during recording according to the set flash mode. To close the built-in flash after use, push and close it lightly with your finger.

Flash mode

built-in flash

Settings

Contents

On-screen

display

 

 

Off

Disables the function.

 

Auto The flash comes on depending on the brightness of the subject.

Red-eye The flash prefires automatically before the main firing to reduce red-eye.

Fill in The flash comes on regardless of the brightness of the subject.

The shutter speed is set to slow and the flash fires at the adjusted shutter speed. Use to

Slow sync capture both subject and background at night or in dim light. Use of a tripod(not supplied) is recommended to prevent a blurred photo image. Slow sync flash mode allows the user to take brighter background as well as brighter subject at night.

•Do not fire the flash with the flash bulb covered with your hand.

•Do not fire the flash close to people’s eyes. Otherwise the subject could suffer a temporary loss of eyesight. Never use the

WARNING

flash closer than 1 meter from children.

 

•When Red-eye reduction auto is set, the flash fires 3 times to perform red-eye reduction during 1.5 seconds.

•The effective flash range is 7~10 feet.

•The battery power will be consumed faster with repeated use of the flash.

•Public places such as museums may prohibit flash use.

•The flash function is not available as following functions: “Cont. Shot,” ” “EASY Q,” “Exposure(Manual).”

•If you operate the Flash ( ) button when “Anti-Shake” is on, the Anti-Shake function is released and

flash is activated with priority.

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