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## Manual Exposure Shooting

You can shoot at your favorite exposure by manually setting the shutter speed and aperture value.

1. Set the mode dial to (Manual Exposure Shooting).

1. Press on the control wheel to select the shutter speed, aperture (F value), focus or ISO speed.

- Each time you press the center of the control wheel, the item to be set will change.

- When you want to set the focus, you can also select MENU [Focus] and select (Flexible Spot AF), (Semi Manual) or (Manual Focus).

- When shooting in Manual Exposure Shooting mode with Smile Shutter [On], on the control wheel is used for Tracking focus. Settings such as the shutter speed, aperture (F value), focus and ISO cannot be adjusted.

1. Turn the control wheel to select a value.

Control wheel | Feature
| Moving items
| Shutter speed, aperture (F value), focus or ISO speed settings

- Select a shutter speed from 1/1600 seconds to 30 seconds.

- When zoom is set fully to W, you can select an aperture of F3.3 or F8 (when used with the Internal ND (Neutral Density) Filter).
  When zoom is set fully to T, you can select an aperture of F5.9 or F14 (when used with the Internal ND (Neutral Density) Filter).

1. Press the shutter button to shoot the image.

Setting the shutter speed and aperture (F value)
The difference between the settings and proper exposure judged by the camera appears as an EV on screen.
A: Shutter speed
B: Aperture (F value)
C: EV

- 0EV is the value judged as the most suitable by the camera.

- When the shutter speed is one second or slower, the shutter speed is indicated by [”], for example, [1”].

- When you set the shutter speed slower, using a tripod is recommended to prevent the effects of vibration.

- When the shutter speed becomes slower than a certain speed, the NR slow shutter function is activated automatically to reduce image noise, and appears on the screen.

- If you select slow shutter speeds, it takes time to process the data.

Notes

- If proper exposure is not obtained by your settings, the setting value indicators on the screen will flash when the shutter button is pressed halfway down. You can shoot in this condition, but exposure readjustment is recommended.

- You may not be able to set some functions or MENU items depending on the selected REC mode. For details, see “Functions not available in some REC modes” [Details] and “MENU items not available in some REC modes.” [Details]

Related Topic
ISO
EV
Focus
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