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Holding the camera firmly with both hands, slide it vertically and horizontally in accordance with the instructions that appears on the monitor screen. |
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When moving the camera horizontally, do not allow your body to move left or right. Your body should serve as the axis. |
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When sliding the camera vertically, do not allow your body to move upwards or downwards.
Your shoulders should serve as the axis. |
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Take care not to slide the camera diagonally and not to allow the camera to shake. |
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| NOTE |
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Any of the following can cause Wide Shot operation to stop part way through. |
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- Subject or camera movement |
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- Camera movement that is too fast or too slow |
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- Camera movement outside of the required route |
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- Camera movement in the wrong direction |
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•Also, any of the following can cause poor Wide Shot results. |
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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. |
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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. |
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Shooting under a flickering light source (such as fluorescent lighting) may result in uneven brightness and/or coloring in the final Wide Shot image. |
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The following conditions are not compatible with Wide Shot shooting. |
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Subject whose brightness is very different from that of its surroundings due to artificial light, sunlight, etc. |
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Rivers, waves, waterfalls, or other subject with constantly changing patterns |
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Sky, beach, or other subject with continuous patterns |
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Camera too close to the main subject |
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Moving subject |
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Dark surroundings |
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Panning upwards on a skyscraper or some other very tall structure or object |
