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Shooting Features
Scene Mode (Shooting Suited to the Shooting Conditions)
B Notes About HDR
Use of a tripod is recommended. Set Photo VR (A138) to Off in the setup menu when
using a tripod to stabilize the camera during shooting.
o Backlighting
• Press the d button to select On or Off to enable or disable the high dynamic range
(HDR) function in HDR based on the shooting conditions.
• Off (default setting): The flash fires to prevent the subject from being hidden in
shadow. Raise the flash before shooting.
- Press the shutter-release button all the way to capture one image.
• On: Use when taking pictures with very bright and dark areas in the same frame.
- When there is a big difference between the bright and dark areas, the HDR icon on
the shooting screen changes to green.
- When the shutter-release button is pressed all the way, the camera shoots images
continuously and saves the following two images.
- A non-HDR composite image
- An HDR composite image in which the loss of details in highlights or shadows is
minimized
- Once the shutter-release button is pressed all the way, hold the camera still until a still
image is displayed. After taking a picture, do not turn the camera off before the screen
switches to the shooting screen.
- The angle of view (i.e., the area visible in the frame) seen in the saved image may be
narrower than that seen on the shooting screen.
- Under some shooting conditions, dark shadows may appear around bright subjects
or bright areas may appear around dark subjects.
- If HDR compositing could not be performed, the camera saves a non-HDR composite
image and an image in which dark areas are corrected by D-Lighting (A70).
- If there is only enough memory to save one image, an image processed by D-Lighting
at the time of shooting, in which dark areas of the image are corrected, is the only
image saved.
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While the shutter-release button is held all the way down, images are captured continuously.
• The camera can capture up to about 7 images continuously at a rate of about 7.7 fps
(when Image mode is set to P 4608×3456).
• The frame rate for continuous shooting may become slow depending on the current
image mode setting, the memory card used, or shooting conditions.
• Focus, exposure, and hue for the second and subsequent images are fixed at the values
determined with the first image.