Shooting according to scene conditions (Scene Selection)

Twilight mode

Twilight portrait mode

 

Landscape mode

Portrait mode

When shooting night scenes, shooting people at night, or shooting landscapes, use the modes listed below to improve the quality of your images.

Twilight mode

Allows you to shoot night scenes without losing the dark atmosphere of the surroundings. The shutter speed becomes slower, so we recommend that you use a tripod to prevent shaking.

•The flash cannot be used in this mode.

Twilight portrait mode

Suitable for shooting portraits in dark places. The shutter speed becomes slower, so we recommend that you use a tripod to prevent shaking.

•Allows you to shoot sharp images of people in dark places without losing the dark atmosphere of the surroundings.

•The flash strobes regardless of the surrounding brightness.

Landscape mode

Focuses only on a distant subject to shoot landscapes, etc.

•You cannot shoot in macro mode.

•The flash does not strobe automatically.

Portrait mode (MVC-CD400 only)

Suitable for shooting portraits. Backgrounds blur away, and the subject is sharpened.

If the shutter speed becomes 1/2 second or slower (MVC-CD250) or

1/25 second or slower (MVC-CD400) in the Twilight or Twilight portrait mode, “NR” is displayed before the shutter speed and the NR slow shutter mode is automatically activated.

NR slow shutter

The NR slow shutter function removes noise from recorded images to provide clean, crisp images. Using a tripod is recommended to prevent shaking.

Press the shutter button fully down.

r

“CAPTURING” is displayed. The screen turns black.

r

“PROCESSING” is displayed.

r

“RECORDING” is displayed, and the image is recorded.

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