RECORDING
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IMPORTANT!
Auto Focus tends not to work well with the following
types of subjects.
• Solid color walls or objects with little contrast
• Strongly backlit objects
• Polished metal or other brightly reflective objects
• Venetian blinds or other horizontally repeating pat-
terns
• Multiple images that are varying distances from the
camera
• Subjects in poorly lit areas
• Auto Focus also may not work properly when the cam-
era is unsteady or shaking.
These cases may make it impossible for Auto Focus to focus
properly, which is indicated by the Operation lamp and the
Auto Focus Frame inside the monitor screen remaining red.
When this happens switch to the Manual Mode for focusing
(page E-64). The following are the fixed focusing distances
when Auto Focus is unable to focus.
Well-lit Location: 1.5 meters (4.9´) minimum
With Flash:
Approximately 2 meters (6.6´)
Depending on actual conditions, a green Operation lamp
and Auto Focus Frame do not necessarily guarantee that the
image is in focus. Also, dim lighting can cause Auto Focus to
take a long time.
CAUTION
• Never open the battery compartment cover, discon-
nect the AC adapter from the camera, or unplug the
adapter from the wall socket while the Power/Function
lamp or Operation lamp is flashing. Doing so will not
only make storage of the current image impossible, it
can also corrupt other image data already stored in
camera memory.
• Fluorescent lighting actually flickers at a frequency
that cannot be detected by the human eye. When us-
ing the camera indoors under such lighting, you may
experience some brightness or color problems with
recorded images, or with auto focus distance mea-
surements.
