How to Press the Shutter Button

Getting Ready

The shutter button can be pressed down in two stages: halfway down and fully down. When pressed halfway down, AF (auto-focus) and AE (auto exposure) are set. When pressed fully down, the camera takes a picture.

Taking

Photographs

Playing

BackImages

Press the shutter button down halfway 1 .

AF (auto-focus) and AE (auto exposure) (Additional Information, Glossary) start to function.

When AF or AE are locked, the beep tone (Page 111) sounds and the viewfinder LED turns green.

Press the shutter button down fully 2 .

The camera takes a picture.

The viewfinder LED turns red while image data is being recorded onto the SmartMedia™.

IMPORTANT

1 Press down halfway.

2 Press down fully.

Erasing

Images

Handy

Functions

Other

Applications

Additional

Information

Never open the SmartMedia™ cover or remove the SmartMedia™ while an image is being recorded. This may corrupt the data on the SmartMedia™ or damage the SmartMedia™ itself.

Memo

The image in the LCD monitor sometimes darkens from the time that the shutter button is pressed down halfway until the image becomes focused.

To set the focus or exposure for a subject outside the center of the intended image, point the camera directly at the subject or desired exposure (lighting), press and hold the shutter button halfway. Now, with the shutter button still held halfway down, you can turn the direction of the camera and frame your image with the focus and exposure locked. Press the shutter button down fully to complete capturing of the image.

Moving the camera as you press the shutter button will result in a blurred image.

The PDR-M81 uses an accurate auto focus mechanism. However, the PDR-M81 may have difficulty

focusing or not be able to focus at all for subjects and situations such as the following:

- Subjects moving at high speed

- When the subject is distant and dark

- Very shiny subjects such as a mirror or car body

- When there are objects in front of or behind the subject

- Extremely low contrast subjects

(such as an animal in a cage or a person in front of a tree)

- Subjects that have low contrast and merge into

- Subjects with little reflection, such as hair or fur

the background (such as white walls or subjects

- Subjects with no solidity, such as smoke or flames

dressed in the same color as the background)

- Subjects viewed through glass

If the image cannot be focused, the focus is automatically fixed to infinity. (When the flash is necessary at this time, it is simultaneously fixed to illuminate objects 1.5 meters (five feet) away. During macro photography, the flash is aligned with the wide position.)

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Toshiba PDR-M71 instruction manual How to Press the Shutter Button, Press the shutter button down halfway