Scene Select Setting - Sanyo Xacti VPC-HD2000 Instruction Manual

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Adjusting the monitor brightness
• While the Recording Screen is active, you can quickly access the screen
for adjusting the brightness of the monitor by pressing the MENU button for
at least 1 second.
What is the camera focusing on? Target mark
• A target mark [_, on the monitor
shows the area the camera is
focusing on.
• The camera automatically
determines the correct focus by
measuring from 9 different focus
points within the shooting area. If the
target mark is at a position that is _*
different from the point you wish to
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fOCUSon, you can refocus, for
example, by changing the shooting
angle. Shutter speed
• The large target mark appears when Aperture
the camera focuses on a wide area
in the center of the screen.
The focus and exposure can be locked (in the NORMAL mode)
• By assigning an operation shortcut to the SET button (pages 138 and
142), you can set the autofocus or the exposure to a fixed setting. When
the exposure setting is fixed, the _ icon appears on the monitor; when
the autofocus setting is fixed, the _ icon appears on the monitor.
• When the focus range (pages 60 and 101) setting or scene select setting
is changed, the focus lock is released.
The shutter speed and aperture are displayed (in the NORMAL mode)
• The shutter speed and aperture settings are shown on the Recording
Screen. You can use them as a reference when shooting.
If the camera shake icon _0_appears... (in the NORMAL mode)
• During still image shooting, if the shutter speed is slow and the possibility
that the image may be blurred due to camera shake becomes high, the
camera shake icon may appear on the monitor. In this case, use a tripod to
stabilize the camera when shooting, or set the flash operation mode to
automatic (pages 60 and 77).
• When shooting with the scene select function set to the fireworks
mode, the camera shake icon always appears, but this is normal.
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