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Shooting guides
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Improving your shooting skills
Color
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White balance
Besides sunlight, there are other sources for illuminating the subject, such as tungsten and
fluorescent lighting. These types of lighting contain particular colors; therefore, the same
white object shot under different lighting has slightly different colors. Even under the same
sunlight, the colors in the picture differ depending on the sky conditions, the shadows of trees
or buildings, and other factors. White balance automatically corrects the effects from these
types of lighting and enables shooting with the right colors. You can usually obtain the right
colors with the white balance set to
[AUTO]
. Depending on the shooting conditions, however,
you may not be able to obtain the intended colors. In this case, change the setting
accordingly.
g
“Selecting the white balance” (P. 64)
Convenient settings
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Customizing functions
This camera is equipped with various shooting functions that can be customized for ease of
use.
For example, if you want to take several pictures of the same subject using the same
settings, you can register those settings as My Mode for use at a later time. You can then
easily load that registered My Mode and use it as the shooting mode.
To focus on the subject and then recompose the shot, you can set
[AEL/AFL]
so that auto
focus can be done by pressing the
AEL/AFL
button, and then you can lock the exposure by
pressing the shutter button halfway.
You can customize other camera operations, such as by changing the functions assigned to
the buttons and by changing the time that the direct buttons remain selected.
g
“MY MODE SETUP” (P. 92), “AEL/AFL” (P. 90), “
;
FUNCTION” (P. 91),
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FUNCTION” (P. 92), “BUTTON TIMER” (P. 92)
This section describes the functions suitable under different shooting conditions depending
on the subject.
Taking landscape pictures
This section describes how to take outdoor scenery pictures of forests, lakes and beaches in
daylight.
A guide to functions for different subjects
Fluorescent light
Tungsten light
Shade of tree
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