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Flash Hot Shoe - allows the use of external flash guns, or flash triggers
to be used for creative flash photography or this shoe can be used for
holding accessories such as a microphone or video light.
Stereo Microphones - these two microphone ports allow the camera to
record audio during video recording operation. Wind cut and zoom mic
functions can be defined in the set up menu.
Front/sides of camera
Focus assist/self timer indicator LED - this led functions (if
enabled in
the menu) to allow a high intensity orange beam to illuminate the subject
to assist the focus system to determine the increased contrast subject's
focus distance. In the 2 second timer mode this LED blinks at 0.5 second
intervals during the delay time before exposure takes place. During the
10 second self timer mode it blinks at a 1 second rate for the first 8
seconds then blinks at the 0.5 second rate for the remaining 2 seconds.
Zoom side lever performs exactly as the top zoom lever does however it
is possible to program, from the set up menu, this lever to operate as a
manual focus lever instead of providing the
zoom functionality.
AF/AF Macro/MF switch - this switch allows
the minimum focus distance to be set for the
telephoto zoom position. At the AF position the
camera is quicker to acquire focus as it does
not have to cycle through the minimum focus
distance. As a result
the closest focus
distance is 2 metres (6ft 6inches). When the
switch is set to the AF macro mode
(mid position) the camera uses the whole
focus range which is down to 1
Lens controls
metre (3ft 3 inches) at the full telephoto setting. In the MF
position the
focus of the lens is controlled manually by the navigation buttons, the
back control wheel or the zoom lever - if it has been programmed to
manual focus operation.
Focus button - this button is used to acquire automatic focus whilst in
manual focus mode and to initiate the setting of the focus target size and
position in autofocus modes.
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