User Manual
Table Of Contents
- Cover
- Introduction
- Getting Started
- Charging the Battery
- Installing and Removing the Battery and Card
- Turning on the Power
- Setting the Date, Time, and Zone
- Selecting the Interface Language
- Attaching and Detaching a Lens
- Basic Operation
- Quick Control for Shooting Functions
- Menu Operations
- Formatting the Card
- Switching the LCD Monitor Display
- Feature Guide
- Basic Shooting and Image Playback
- Fully Automatic Shooting (Scene Intelligent Auto)
- Full Auto Techniques (Scene Intelligent Auto)
- Disabling Flash
- Creative Auto Shooting
- Shooting Portraits
- Shooting Landscapes
- Shooting Close-ups
- Shooting Moving Subjects
- Shooting Food
- Shooting Night Portraits
- Quick Control
- Shooting with Ambience Selection
- Shooting by Lighting or Scene Type
- Image Playback
- Creative Shooting
- Advanced Shooting
- Conveying the Subject’s Movement
- Changing the Depth of Field
- Manual Exposure
- Changing the Metering Mode
- Setting Exposure Compensation
- Auto Exposure Bracketing
- Locking the Exposure
- Locking the Flash Exposure
- Auto Correction of Brightness and Contrast
- Correcting the Image’s Dark Corners
- Customizing Image Characteristics
- Registering Preferred Image Characteristics
- Matching the Light Source
- Adjusting the Color Tone for the Light Source
- Setting the Color Reproduction Range
- Shooting with the LCD Monitor (Live View Shooting)
- Shooting Movies
- Handy Features
- Image Playback
- Post-Processing Images
- Printing Images
- Customizing the Camera
- Reference
- Software Start Guide / Downloading Images to a Computer
101
Autofocus can fail to achieve focus (viewfinder’s focus indicator <o>
blinks) with certain subjects such as the following:
Subjects with very low contrast
(Example: Blue skies, solid-color flat surfaces, etc.)
Subjects in very low light
Strongly backlit and reflective subjects
(Example: Cars with highly reflective bodies, etc.)
Near and distant subjects framed close to an AF point
(Example: Animals in cages, etc.)
Subjects such as dots of light framed close to an AF point
(Example: Night scenes, etc.)
Repetitive patterns
(Example: Skyscraper windows, computer keyboards, etc.)
In such cases, focus by doing either of the following:
(1) With One-Shot AF, focus on an object at the same distance as the
subject and lock the focus, then recompose the shot (p.61).
(2) Set the lens’s focus mode switch to <MF> and focus manually.
1
Set the lens’s focus mode switch
to <MF>.
2
Focus on the subject.
Focus by turning the lens’s focusing
ring until the subject looks sharp in
the viewfinder.
Subjects Difficult to Focus on
MF: Manual Focus
Depending on the subject, focus may be achieved by slightly
recomposing the shot and performing AF operation again.
For subjects difficult to focus on during Live View shooting with
[FlexiZone - Single] and [u Live mode], see page 152.
Focusing ring
If you press the shutter button halfway and focus manually, the AF point
achieving focus will light up briefly in red, the beeper will sound, and the
focus indicator <o> in the viewfinder will light up.