Camera menu (continued)
Adjusting the white balance
— WB
Correcting blur caused by hand movement
— hand
Notes
• The camera shake correction feature is not effective |
if you shoot a moving object, for example, children, |
animals, etc. |
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Auto (default setting)
The camera automatically adjusts the white balance according to the brightness and the amount of light in the scene so that white objects appear white in the captured image. Use this setting for general photography.
Daylight
Adjusts the white balance for shooting in daylight so that white objects appear white in the picture. This setting also captures sunsets in colors that are close to what you see with your own eyes.
Fluorescent
Corrects for fluorescent lighting so that the colors in the picture are close to what you see with your own eyes.
Incandescent
Corrects for incandescent lighting so that the colors in the picture are close to what
When there is not enough light and the shutter speed slows down, camera shake may often occur, but the camera can still produce a bright, sharp image, taking four pictures in rapid succession at a shutter speed faster than normal and combining the images into a single shot. When you use this correction feature, keep aiming at the subject for about 2 seconds until you hear the sound of the shutter. After you press the shutter button, the screen remains blank for almost 4 seconds while the camera processes the images.
This function is useful when you want to avoid flash photography, such as in dimly lit restaurants and museums, when the subject is out of range for the flash, or when you take a
Set the flash to No Flash before selecting the camera shake correction feature. If the flash is set to Auto or Forced Flash, the flash will override the camera shake correction feature. Also, the camera shake correction feature does not function if the image quality is set to TIFF or if the consecutive shot mode is selected.
• | When you shoot an extremely bright object such as |
| a spotlight, smear* often occurs. To avoid smear, |
| use the flash unit or set the scene to Twilight. Also, |
| you should pay attention to smear when there is |
| enough light, such as under a blue sky, and the |
| camera shake correction feature is set to On. Off is |
| the recommended setting because camera shake |
| rarely occurs under such shooting conditions. |
• | Use the flash unit or set the scene to Twilight if the |
| camera shake correction feature is not effective and |
| it is not light enough. |
| * The smear effect is a characteristic of CCD image |
| pickup devices. When you shoot in strong light, |
| the vertical leakage of light appears in the image. |
| This effect is not a malfunction. |
Menu Options
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Off (default setting)
The camera shake correction feature does not function.
Auto
The camera shake correction feature functions if there is not enough light to produce a bright, sharp image.
On
The camera shake correction feature functions every time you take a picture to produce bright, sharp images.
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