42Shooting Featuresc Landscape• The focus area or focus indicator (A9) always glows green when the shutter-release button ispressed halfway.d Sports• The camera focuses on the area in the center of the frame.• The camera focuses even when the shutter-release button is not pressed halfway. You may hearthe sound of the camera focusing.• Press and hold the shutter-release button all the way to capture up to 6 images continuously ata rate of about 2 fps (when image mode is set to P).• Focus, exposure, and hue are fixed at the values determined with the first image in each series.• The frame rate for continuous shooting may vary depending upon the current image modesetting, the memory card used, or shooting condition.e Night portrait• When the camera detects a human face, it focuses on that face (A73).• If no faces are detected, the camera focuses on the subject in the center of the frame.• From the screen displayed after e Night portrait is selected, select Hand-held or Tripod.• Hand-held (default setting):- When the e icon at the top left of the monitor lights in green, press the shutter-releasebutton all the way to capture a series of images which will be combined into a single imageand saved.- Once the shutter-release button is pressed all the way, hold the camera still until a still imageis displayed. After taking an image, do not turn the camera off before the monitor switches tothe shooting screen.- The angle of view (i.e., the area visible in the frame) seen in the saved image will be narrowerthan that seen in the monitor at the time of shooting.- If the subject moves while the camera is shooting continuously, the image may be distorted,overlapped, or blurred.• Tripod: Select this option when using a tripod or other means to stabilize the camera duringshooting.- Vibration reduction is disabled even when Vibration reduction (A104) in the setup menuis set to On.- One image is captured at a slow shutter speed when the shutter-release button is pressed allthe way.• The camera softens skin tones of human faces by applying the skin softening function (A55).• Digital zoom cannot be used.
