Recording Mode; For Photos; Shutter Release Button; Interval Shooting - Leica S Instructions Manual

RECORDING MODE

EN

FOR PHOTOS

SHUTTER BUTTON
1. Pressing briefly activates the range and exposure metering systems,
and the displays in the viewfinder and top panel display. When the
shutter button is released, the metering systems remain active for
approx. 12 s.
Notes:
• If Review mode was previously active, the camera switches back to
Recording mode when the shutter button is pressed; it if was previ-
ously in Stand-by mode, it is activated again by pressing the shutter
button, i.e. the metering systems and displays are activated.
• The shutter button remains blocked
– if the internal buffer memory is temporarily full, e.g. after a series of
pictures, or
– if the inserted memory card(s) is/are full.
2. Pressing the shutter button to the pressure point and holding in this
position when using Autofocus
AFs
saved at the same time. New measurements can be performed once
the shutter button is released.
Note:
The metered exposure value during spot and center weighted metering in
, and modes is saved, if required, by (simultaneously) pressing the
A T P
Joystick forwards. Automatic focusing can also be allocated to the Joy-
stick via the menu control.
3. If the button is pressed further, the photo is taken or a preselected
self-timer delay time starts.
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PICTURE SERIES
With the Leica S, the picture series can be taken with a frame rate of
approx. 3.5 fps.
Setting and using the function
1. In the menu, under
2. select
3. The further function is then determined by the different actuation of
the shutter button:
– Picture series are taken as long as you hold the shutter button
fully depressed (and the capacity of the buffer memory and/or
memory card(s) is sufficient).
– If you only fully depress the shutter button briefly, the camera
continues to take single pictures.

INTERVAL SHOOTING

For picture series of sequences extending over a prolonged period of
time, the Leica S offers interval shooting.
Intervals consist of a defined total number of pictures and a defined
period of time between the pictures.
mode (focus priority), the focus is Setting and using the function
1. In the menu, under
2. select
3. Call up the sub-menu belonging to the interval and
4. there select
• In both cases a further sub-menu appears with a numerical key-
pad. The activates field is highlighted in each case.
5. Select the (first) desired digit by turning the rear thumbwheel or by
pressing the Joystick up, down, to the left or to the right; in the
Frames
sub-menu for the desired time interval between the individual
Time
pictures – in hours/minutes/seconds.
, select the item
CAMERA Drive Mode
in the sub-menu
Continuous
CAMERA , select the item Drive Mode
in the sub-menu
Interval
or
Frames Interval Time
sub-menu for the total number of pictures, in the
– To save a digit – to the line above the numerical keypad - press the
rear thumbwheel or the Joystick forwards. Up to 4-digit numbers can
be used; repeat steps 5. and 6. for the second, third and fourth digits.
Further functions of this sub-menu:
– (top right) = Back to the previous menu level without saving the
inputs
and
– (bottom right) = Confirm inputs and return to the previous menu
OK
level
6. Confirm your settings by pressing the button marked
at the bottom right next to the monitor
Note:
If step 7. is performed without entering a digit in the line, the camera
automatically sets the numbers of the factory setting.
7. Interval shooting is started by pressing the shutter button.
Note:
The function remains active until it is deactivated again in the menu.
Notes that apply equally for photo series and interval shooting:
• The camera's buffer memory allows only a limited number of pictures
in series. At the pressure point of the shutter button or during a series
of pictures, the number of pictures possible or still possible in the
and
series is displayed in the viewfinder.
• Regardless of how many pictures have been taken in a series, both
review modes initially show the last picture in the series or the last
picture in the series saved on the currently active card, if not all of the
pictures in the series have been transferred from the internal buffer
memory to the respective card yet.
Details of how to select the other pictures in the series and further
options in review mode are described in the respective sections.
Interval
in this case
SET