User manual
Table Of Contents
- Cover
- Introduction
- Getting Started and Basic Camera Operations
- Charging the Battery
- Installing and Removing the Battery
- Installing and Removing the Card
- Using the LCD Monitor
- Turning on the Power
- Setting the Date, Time, and Zone
- Selecting the Interface Language
- Attaching and Detaching a Lens
- Basic Shooting Operations
- Quick Control for Shooting Functions
- Menu Operations and Configurations
- Operating the Camera with Touch Screen
- Formatting the Card
- Before You Start
- Displaying the Grid in the Viewfinder
- Displaying the Electronic Level
- Setting the Viewfinder Information Display
- Button Functions
- Setting the Multi Function Lock
- Setting the Shooting Mode Guide
- Setting the Feature Guide
- Help
- Basic Shooting
- Fully Automatic Shooting (Scene Intelligent Auto)
- Full Auto Techniques (Scene Intelligent Auto)
- Creative Auto Shooting
- Special Scene Mode
- Shooting Portraits
- Shooting Group Photos
- Shooting Landscapes
- Shooting Moving Subjects
- Photographing Children
- Panning
- Shooting Close-ups
- Shooting Food
- Shooting Candlelight Portraits
- Shooting Night Portraits (With a Tripod)
- Shooting Night Scenes (Handheld)
- Shooting Backlit Scenes
- Quick Control
- Setting the AF and Drive Modes
- Image Settings
- Setting the Image-Recording Quality
- Setting the Aspect Ratio
- Setting the ISO Speed for Still Photos
- Selecting a Picture Style
- Customizing a Picture Style
- Registering a Picture Style
- Setting the White Balance
- White Balance Correction
- Auto Correction of Brightness and Contrast
- Setting Noise Reduction
- Highlight Tone Priority
- Correction of Lens Aberrations due to Optical Characteristics
- Reducing Flicker
- Setting the Color Space
- Creating and Selecting a Folder
- File Numbering Methods
- Setting Copyright Information
- GPS Settings
- Advanced Operations for Photographic Effects
- Program AE
- Shutter-Priority AE
- Aperture-Priority AE
- Manual Exposure
- Selecting the Metering Mode
- Setting the Desired Exposure Compensation
- Auto Exposure Bracketing (AEB)
- Locking the Exposure for Shooting (AE Lock)
- Long (Bulb) Exposures
- HDR (High Dynamic Range) Shooting
- Multiple Exposures
- Mirror Lockup
- Interval Timer Shooting
- Using the Eyepiece Cover
- Remote Control Shooting
- Using a Remote Switch
- Flash Photography
- Shooting with the LCD Monitor (Live View Shooting)
- Shooting Movies
- Image Playback
- Image Playback
- Shooting Information Display
- Index display (Multiple-image Display)
- Jump Display (Jumping Through Images)
- Filtering Images for Playback
- Magnifying Images
- Playing Back with the Touch Screen
- Rotating the Image
- Protecting Images
- Setting Ratings
- Quick Control for Playback
- Enjoying Movies
- Playing Back Movies
- Editing a Movie’s First and Last Scenes
- Slide Show (Auto Playback)
- Viewing Images on a TV Set
- Erasing Images
- Adjusting the LCD Monitor Brightness
- Setting the Auto Rotation of Vertical Images
- Post-Processing Images
- Sensor Cleaning
- Print order and Photobook Set-up
- Customizing the Camera
- Reference
- Software Start Guide / Downloading Images to a Computer
103
C Creative Auto Shooting
(2) Background blur
You can adjust the degree of background
blur. Turn the <6> or <5> dial to set
the effect.
With the (2) item on page 101 selected,
press <0> to display the screen shown
on the left. While looking at the gauge,
you can turn the <6> or <5> dial to
set the degree.
Note that you can preview the resulting effect of “Background blur”
before shooting by pressing the <0> button and switching to Live
View shooting (p.106).
OFF : The camera sets the aperture automatically to match the
brightness. You can take the picture with the degree of
background blur automatically set by the camera.
Blurred : The further left (Blurred end) you set the orange bar, the
more blurred the background of the subject in the picture will
be.
Sharp : The further right (Sharp end) you set the orange bar, the
sharper the background of the subject in the picture will be.
Depending on the lens used and shooting conditions, the background in
the picture may not look as blurred or sharp as expected.
This function cannot be set if you use an external flash.
Depending on the speed of the lens used (open aperture f/number),
certain setting positions may not be selectable.
If you want to blur the background, see “Shooting Tips” for “Shooting
Portraits” on page 109 for shooting.