Toshiba PDR-M500 Instruction Manual page 29

Focusing
• If you want to focus on the subject which is not in the center of the frame, you can point the
subject and press the shutter button down halfway first, and then with the shutter button
held halfway down (focus and exposure locked), reframe your picture and press the shutter
button the rest of the way down to complete the shooting.
• This Digital Still Camera uses an accurate auto-focus mechanism. However, you may
experience difficulty focusing or not be able to focus under the following situations:
· When there are objects before or behind the subject
(such as animals inside cages or people in front of trees)
· Very shiny subjects such as a mirror or car body
· Subjects that hardly reflect any light such as hair or fur
· When the contrast is extremely low
(such as people wearing clothes the same color as a background)
· Subjects moving at high speed
· Subjects without substance such as smoke or flame
· Subjects viewed through glass
· When subjects are far away and dark
• Light or dark spots, or colored spots sometimes are visible on the LCD monitor. This,
Memo
however, is not a malfunction. This spots are not contained in recorded images.
• The image in the LCD monitor sometimes darkens while the shutter button is pressed
down halfway until the image becomes focused.
• Moving the camera while pressing the shutter button will cause the image to be fluctuated.
• When the camera cannot focus on a subject, the focus is fixed at infinity. (When the
flash is used, the focal distance is fixed at about 1.5 m. During macro photography,
photographs are taken at maximum close range.)
• It sometimes takes several seconds for the flash to recharge. During flash recharging,
the viewfinder LED lights (orange). You cannot take photographs while the viewfinder
LED is lit (orange).
LCD Monitor/Electronic View Finder Display during Auto Photography
Text, numbers, icons and other information displayed on the screen differ according to
the current settings.
Mode icon
Quality ( page 58)
Self-timer icon ( page 36)
AE icon ( page 28)
Unsteady hold warning
icon ( page 31, 113)
Image size ( page 58)
Flash icon ( page 34)
Photography tab
menu
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• Each press of the DISP button switches between LCD monitor display and Electronic
View Finder.
Possible number
of shots
Shooting
date and time
Remaining
battery power
(
Zoom state
(
Focus area (when
the shutter button
is pressed halfway)
page 21)
page 37)
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