Sony DSLR-A100 User's Manual / Troubleshooting page 14

Hintsforpreventingblur
Hold tile camera steady, keeping _onr arms at your side and support the lens 'aith tile
pahn of your left hand. Step out with one lk_otto stabilize your upper body, leaning
against a wall or putting your elbow on a table will also provide support. Using a tripod,
or using the Super SteadyShot function is also recommended.
In a dark location, using the flash allows you to take a bright picture even of a subject in
dim light and it also helps to prevent camera shake.
If you want to make the most of the ambient light, or if the sut_iect is out of flash range,
you can increase the shutter speed to reduce the camera shake without firing the flash by
increasing the ISO./Howevel: this tends to make the image grainy or subject to noise.)
Whenthesubject i soutside thefocus frame(Focus-lock)
Norutall?, in auto locus ntode, place the sut!ject within the lk_cus
frame _ ] attd take the picture. If the sut!ject is off-center and
outside the lk_cus frame, the background witltiu the focus frame
will be in focus and the sut)ject will be out of lk_cus. To prevent
this, use the focus-lock function by following the steps below.
• The locus-lock function is also ellbctive when sbooflng subjecls willl which aulolocus is less eflective
(page 15).
(!) Place the subject within the lk)cus frame and press the shutter button hall\vay down.
• Tile • indicator lighls up in tile viewfinder. A local locus Irame is illuminated briefly to indicate tile
point of locus.
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