Other Special-purpose Recording Features
- Q5
- What should I do to get good results with Wide Shot?
- A5
- Use the following tips.
• Holding the camera firmly with both hands, slide it vertically and horizontally in accordance with the
instructions that appears on the monitor screen.
• When moving the camera horizontally, do not allow your body to move left or right. Your body should
serve as the axis.
• When sliding the camera vertically, do not allow your body to move upwards or downwards. Your
shoulders should serve as the axis.
• Take care not to slide the camera diagonally and not to allow the camera to shake.
NOTE
• Any of the following can cause Wide Shot operation to stop part way through.
- Subject or camera movement
- Camera movement that is too fast or too slow
- Camera movement outside of the required route
- Camera movement in the wrong direction
• Also, any of the following can cause poor Wide Shot results.
- Shooting a Wide Shot image after half-pressing the shutter button to perform Auto Focus may not
produce the desired result if there are considerable differences in the brightness, color, and/or focus
of the individual images. If this happens, try changing the focus position by focusing on a different
subject, etc.
- Since a Wide Shot image is created by joining multiple images together, there may be some roughness
at the point where two images are joined.
- Shooting under a flickering light source (such as fluorescent lighting) may result in uneven brightness
and/or coloring in the final Wide Shot image.
• The following conditions are not compatible with Wide Shot shooting.
- Subject whose brightness is very different from that of its surroundings due to artificial light, sunlight, etc.
- Rivers, waves, waterfalls, or other subject with constantly changing patterns
- Sky, beach, or other subject with continuous patterns
- Camera too close to the main subject
- Moving subject
- Dark surroundings
- Panning upwards on a skyscraper or some other very tall structure or object