Camera menu (continued)

Changing the image quality

— quality

You can select the quality of the picture to be taken. Settings STD, FINE and TIFF offer increasing levels of image quality with correspondingly large file sizes.

Taking pictures in succession (consecutive shot)

— mode

Off (default setting)

The consecutive shot mode is

disabled.

Enabling/disabling Direct Shutter

— d.shutter

You can disable Direct Shutter so that it

will not be set off when the shutter button is pressed unintentionally, such as when the camera is in your bag.

Adjusting the exposure

— exposure

Although this camera automatically sets the appropriate exposure (AE), you can change the automatic setting to the exposure you want. However, you may not get the desired

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FINE (default setting)

Images are recorded in high-quality (low-compression) JPEG format (Medium file size).

STD

Images are recorded in standard-quality (high-compression) JPEG format (Small file size).

TIFF

Images are recorded in non-compressed TIFF format with no compression noise (Large file size).

TIFF cannot be selected when the consecutive shot mode is set to on or the hand mode is set to On or Auto.

 

 

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On

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

This setting allows you to take

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

four pictures in succession

 

 

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when you keep the shutter

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

button pressed down.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Approximately four pictures

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

are taken in 2 seconds while

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

you keep the shutter button

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

pressed. In consecutive shot

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

mode, no images are displayed

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

on the screen.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Fix the composition in the

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

finder before you press the

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

shutter button.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

You cannot use this setting

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

when the image quality is set

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

to TIFF. Both flash and camera

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

shake correction are disabled

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

in consecutive shot mode.

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On (default setting)

Enables the Direct Shutter function.

Off

Disables Direct Shutter.

effect when the scene is too bright or too dark.

The default setting is +0.0.

1Display the exposure compensation screen using the touch pad.

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2Touch the center of the touch pad to display the exposure setting screen.

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3Adjust the exposure while referring to the screen. For a lighter exposure, slide your finger from left to right over the touch pad; for a darker exposure, slide you finger in the opposite direction. Each time you slide your finger across the touch pad, the exposure increases or decreases in increments of 0.3 EV (15 steps, +2.1 EV to -2.1 EV).

Under-exposure

Adjust in the “+” direction.

Over-exposure

Adjust in the “-” direction.

4Touch the center of the touch pad to apply the new setting.

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Sony 16 manual Camera menu, Changing the image quality Quality, Taking pictures in succession consecutive shot Mode