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
- Setting the Screen Display Level
- Quick Control for Shooting Functions
- Menu Operations and Configurations
- Operating the Camera with Touch Screen
- Formatting the Card
- Switching the LCD Monitor Display
- Displaying the Electronic Level
- Displaying the Grid
- Displaying the Flicker Detection
- Basic Shooting and Image Playback
- Fully Automatic Shooting (Scene Intelligent Auto)
- Full Auto Techniques (Scene Intelligent Auto)
- Shooting When You Cannot Use Flash
- Creative Auto Shooting
- Shooting Portraits
- Shooting Landscapes
- Shooting Close-ups
- Shooting Moving Subjects
- Special Scene Mode
- Shooting Group Photos
- Photographing Children
- Shooting Food
- Shooting Candlelight Portraits
- Shooting Night Portraits (With a Tripod)
- Shooting Night Scenes (Handheld)
- Shooting Backlit Scenes
- Shooting with Creative Filter Effects
- Quick Control
- Adjusting the Brightness
- Image Playback
- Setting the AF and Drive Modes
- Image Settings
- Setting the Image-Recording Quality
- Changing the Image’s Aspect Ratio
- Setting the ISO Speed for Still Photos
- Selecting a Picture Style
- Customizing a Picture Style
- Registering a Picture Style
- Matching the Light Source
- Adjusting the Color Tone for the Light Source
- Auto Correction of Brightness and Contrast
- Setting Noise Reduction
- Correction of Lens Aberrations due to Optical Characteristics
- Reducing Flicker
- Setting the Color Reproduction Range
- Advanced Operations for Photographic Effects
- Flash Photography
- Shooting with the LCD Monitor (Live View Shooting)
- Shooting Movies
- Handy Features
- Image Playback
- Searching for Images Quickly
- Magnifying Images
- Playing Back with the Touch Screen
- Rotating the Image
- Setting Ratings
- Setting Image Search Conditions
- 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
- Protecting Images
- Erasing Images
- Digital Print Order Format (DPOF)
- Specifying Images for a Photobook
- Shooting Information Display
- Post-Processing Images
- Customizing the Camera
- Reference
- Software Start Guide / Downloading Images to a Computer
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You can lock the exposure when you want to set the focus and
exposure separately or when you are to take multiple shots at the same
exposure setting. Press the <A> button to lock the exposure, then
recompose and take the picture. This is called AE lock. It is effective for
shooting backlit subjects, etc.
1
Focus on the subject.
Press the shutter button halfway.
The exposure setting will be
displayed.
2
Press the <A> button (0).
The <A> icon lights up in the
viewfinder to indicate that the
exposure setting is locked (AE lock).
Each time you press the <A> button,
the current exposure setting is
locked.
3
Recompose and take the picture.
When you are to take more pictures
while maintaining the AE lock, keep
holding down the <A> button and
press the shutter button to take
another picture.
* When the lens’s focus mode switch is set to <MF>, AE lock is implemented with
the exposure weighting centered on the center AF point.
A Locking the ExposureN
AE Lock Effects
Metering
Mode
(p.194)
AF Point Selection Method (p.125)
Automatic Selection Manual Selection
q*
AE lock is applied at the AF
point that achieved focus.
AE lock is applied at the
selected AF point.
wre AE lock is applied at the center AF point.
AE lock is not possible with bulb exposures.