Recording With Ease For Beginners (Smart Auto Mode) - Samsung SMX-F400BN User Manual

basic recording

RECORDING WITH EASE FOR BEGINNERS (SMART AUTO MODE)

User-friendly SMART AUTO optimises your camcorder
to the recording conditions automatically, providing
beginners with the best performance.
PRECHECK!
Select the Record (
1. Touch the SMART AUTO (
• The SMART AUTO (
screen at the same time.
2. Adjust the subject on the LCD screen.
• The camcorder detects the subject and automatically selects a type of scene.
• According to the detected type of scene, the corresponding icon will appear.
: Appears when recording landscape.
: Appears when recording with a very bright background.
: Appears when recording a night scene.
: Appears when recording a portrait outdoors at night.
: Appears when recording indoors.
: Appears when recording a portrait.
: Appears when recording a close-up.
3. Press the Recording start/stop button or PHOTO button. pages 35~36
• To record videos, press the Recording start/stop button. To take photos, press the PHOTO button.
4. To cancel SMART AUTO mode, touch the SMART AUTO (
• The SMART AUTO(
• Unavailable buttons during SMART AUTO operation:
MENU button / OK button/ etc. Most settings are automatically adjusted in SMART AUTO mode.
To set or adjust functions on your own, release the SMART AUTO mode fi rst.
• SMART AUTO must be set before recording.
• When there is no detected scene, the (
• The camcorder may not detect the Portrait mode when recording a face, depending on a position of the face or brightness.
• Depending on conditions such as lighting, shake of the camcorder, or distance to the subject, the same scene mode could be detected differently.
• When recording more than two scenes at the same time, SMART AUTO icon priority order is showed as below:
Night Portrait > Portrait > Macro > White > Landscape > Night > Indoor
For example,
8 a) If Portrait and Indoor occur at the same time, Portrait is activated.
b) If Night Portrait and Night occur at the same time, Night Portrait is activated.
/ ) mode by pressing the MODE button. page 24
) touch button.
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AUTO
SMART ) and Anti-Shake(HDIS) (
AUTO
SMART ) and Anti-Shake(HDIS) (
AUTO
STBY
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SMART
) icon appears.
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) icons appear on the
) touch button again.
SMART
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) icons disappear from the screen.
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According to the detected type of scene,
the corresponding icon will appear.
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