Reference Manual

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Scene Mode (Shooting Suited to Scenes)
Shooting Features
y M b Portrait
• The camera detects and focuses on a face (A67).
• The skin softening feature makes the subject’s skin appear softer (A46).
• If no faces are detected, the camera focuses on the subject at the center of the frame.
• The digital zoom is not available.
y M c Landscape
• When the shutter-release button is pressed halfway, the camera adjusts the focus to
infinity. The focus area or focus indicator (A8) always lights in green.
y M d Sports
• The camera focuses at the center area of the frame.
• When you continue to press the shutter-release button all the way, up to 5 pictures are
shot at a rate of about 7.5 frames per second (fps) (when image mode is set to r
4896×3672).
• The camera focuses on the subject even when the shutter-release button is not pressed
halfway. You may hear the sound of the camera focusing.
• Focus, exposure, and hue are fixed at the values determined with the first image in each
series.
• The frame rate with continuous shooting may become slow depending upon the current
image mode setting, the memory card used, or shooting condition.
y M f Party/indoor
• The camera focuses at the center area of the frame.
• As images are easily affected by camera shake, hold the camera steadily. Set Vibration
reduction to Off in the setup menu (A96) when shooting using a tripod to stabilize
the camera.