Reference Manual
Table Of Contents
- Quick Topic Search
- Introduction
- Parts of the Camera
- Getting Started
- Basic Shooting and Playback Operations
- Connecting to a Smart Device (SnapBridge)
- Shooting Features
- Selecting a Shooting Mode
- Auto Mode
- Scene Mode (Shooting Suited to the Shooting Conditions)
- Creative Mode (Applying Effects When Shooting)
- Smart Portrait Mode (Enhancing Human Faces When Shooting)
- Setting Shooting Functions with the Multi Selector
- Flash Mode
- Self-timer
- Macro Mode (Taking Close-up Pictures)
- Exposure Compensation (Adjusting Brightness)
- Using the Zoom
- Focusing
- Default Settings (Flash, Self-timer, and Macro Mode)
- Functions That Cannot Be Used Simultaneously When Shooting
- Playback Features
- Playback Zoom
- Thumbnail Playback/Calendar Display
- List by Date Mode
- Viewing and Deleting Images in a Sequence
- Editing Images (Still Images)
- Before Editing Images
- Quick Effects: Changing Hue or Mood
- Quick Retouch: Enhancing Contrast and Saturation
- D-Lighting: Enhancing Brightness and Contrast
- Red-eye Correction: Correcting Red-eye When Shooting with the Flash
- Glamour Retouch: Enhancing Human Faces
- Small Picture: Reducing the Size of an Image
- Crop: Creating a Cropped Copy
- Movies
- Connecting the Camera to a TV, Printer, or Computer
- Using the Menu
- Technical Notes
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Shooting Features
Selecting a Shooting Mode
You can rotate the mode dial to align the desired shooting mode with the indicator
mark on the camera body.
• A (Auto) mode
Select this mode to perform general shooting in a variety of shooting conditions.
• y, o, j, e, o, d (Scene) modes
Select any one of scene modes based on the shooting conditions, and you can
take pictures with the appropriate settings for those conditions.
- y: Press the d button and select a scene mode.
- o (scene auto selector): The camera recognizes the shooting conditions when
you frame a picture, and you can take pictures in accordance with the conditions.
- j (night landscape): Use this mode to shoot night landscapes.
- e (night portrait): Use this mode to shoot evening and night portraits that
include background scenery.
- o (backlighting): Use this mode to shoot backlit subjects.
- d (sports): Use this mode to shoot sports photos.
• s (Creative) mode
The camera saves four images with effects and one image without effects
simultaneously in one shot.
• F (Smart portrait) mode
Use glamour retouch to enhance human faces during shooting, and use the smile
timer or self-collage function to take pictures.
• M (Short movie show) mode
The camera creates a short movie that is up to 30 seconds long (e 1080/30p or
S 1080/25p) by recording and automatically combining multiple movie clips
that are several seconds long.
C Help Display
The descriptions of functions are displayed while changing the shooting mode or while the
setting screen is displayed.
Press the shutter-release button halfway to quickly switch to shooting mode. You can show
or hide the descriptions using Help display in Monitor settings in the setup menu.
Selecting a Shooting Mode