Still Photo Shooting

You can change the shooting mode to suit the scene.

Self Portrait Mode

To take shots that include yourself, use [Self portrait] (Self Portrait) mode. Rotate the screen around toward the lens. Customizable image processing includes skin smoothing as well as brightness and background adjustment to make yourself stand out.

Sample screens

Tips Shooting tips

  • Set the brightness and smooth skin effect.

    [Brightness] and [Smooth skin effect] can be set in a range of five levels. In [Background], you can adjust the level of background blurring.

  • Tap the screen to shoot.

    Besides pressing the shutter button completely to shoot, you can also shoot by tapping the screen, once you enable Touch Shutter by tapping [Touch Shutter: Disable] to change it to [Touch Shutter: Enable] ().

Caution

  • After the camera achieves focus, do not change the distance between you and the camera until the picture is taken.
  • Be careful not to drop the camera.

Note

  • The self-timer lamp () does not blink when the screen is facing toward the front of the camera in [Self Portrait] mode.
  • You can also take shots of yourself in shooting modes other than [Self Portrait] by rotating the screen toward the front and tapping [Self portrait] in the lower left.

Portrait Mode

Use [Portrait] (Portrait) mode to blur the background and make the person you shoot stand out. It also makes skin tones and hair look softer.

Tips Shooting tips

  • Select the location where the distance between the subject and the background is the farthest.

    The further the distance between the subject and background, the more blurred the background will look. The subject will also stand out better against an uncluttered dark background.

  • Use the telephoto.

    Press the zoom lever to the Magnify side and approach the subject so that the subject fills the frame from the waist up.

  • Focus on the face.

    As you focus before shooting, make sure the AF point on the subject's face is green. When shooting close-ups of faces, you can set [Autofocus: Eye detection] to [Enable] to shoot with the subject's eyes in focus.

  • Shoot continuously.

    The default setting is [Low-speed continuous shooting] (Low speed continuous). If you keep holding down the shutter button, you can shoot continuously to capture changes in the subject's facial expression and pose.

Smooth Skin Mode

Use [Smooth skin] (Smooth skin) mode to make skin look more attractive. Image processing makes skin look smoother.

Tips Shooting tips

  • Enable the camera to detect faces.

    When the camera detects the main subject to which the smooth skin effect will be applied, the frame is displayed on the subject's face. For more effective skin smoothing, you can move closer to or farther from the subject so that the frame is displayed on the subject's face.

  • Focus on the face.

    As you focus before shooting, make sure the AF point on the subject's face is green. When shooting close-ups of faces, you can set [Autofocus: Eye detection] to [Enable] to shoot with the subject's eyes in focus.

Caution

  • Areas other than people's skin may be modified, depending on the shooting conditions.
  • If the smooth skin effect is too strong, images may not look as expected. Take some test shots in advance and check the results.

Panoramic Shot Mode

Use [Panoramic shot] (Panoramic shot) mode to shoot panoramas. The panorama is created by combining shots captured in continuous shooting as you move the camera in one direction while pressing the shutter button completely.

  1. Choose a shooting direction.

    • Tap [Shooting direction] in the lower right to choose the shooting direction.
    • An arrow is displayed showing the direction to move the camera.

  2. Press the shutter button halfway.

    • Keeping the shutter button pressed halfway, focus on the subject.

  3. Take the picture.

    • With the shutter button fully-pressed, move the camera straight ahead at a constant speed in the direction shown by the arrow.
    • The area displayed clearly (1) is captured.
    • A shooting progress indicator (2) is displayed.
    • Shooting stops when you release the shutter button, or when all of the progress indicator is white.

Caution

  • In some scenes, images you intended to capture may not be saved as expected, and the panorama may not look as expected.
  • Shooting may stop midway if you move the camera too slowly or quickly. However, the panorama created up to that point will still be saved.

  • In consideration of the large sizes of Panoramic shot mode images, use a computer or other device to resize panorama images if you will print them from a memory card inserted in a Canon printer.

    If panoramas cannot be managed correctly by software or Web services, try resizing them on a computer.

  • Shots of the following subjects and scenes may not be combined correctly.

    • Subjects in motion
    • Subjects at close range
    • Scenes where the contrast varies greatly
    • Scenes with long stretches of the same color or pattern, such as the sea or sky
  • Shooting is not affected by any correction applied to counteract blur from swinging the camera.
  • Move the camera slowly when the zoom is set to the telephoto end or when shooting night scenes or under low light.

Food Mode

Use [Food] (Food) mode for culinary photography. The photo will look bright and appetizing. Also, the reddish tinge due to the light source will be suppressed in the pictures taken under tungsten lights, etc.

Tips Shooting tips

  • Change the color tone.

    [Color tone] can be adjusted. To increase the reddish tinge of food, set toward [Warm tone] (red), or set toward [Cool tone] (blue) if it looks too red.

Caution

  • The warm color cast of subjects may fade.
  • When multiple light sources are included in the scene, the warm color cast of the picture may not be reduced.
  • In flash photography, [Color tone] switches to the standard setting.
  • If there are people in the picture, the skin tone may not be reproduced properly.

Handheld Night Scene Mode

[Handheld night scene] (Handheld Night Scene) mode enables handheld shooting for night scenes. In this shooting mode, four shots are taken consecutively for each picture, and the resulting image with reduced camera shake is recorded.

Tips Shooting tips

  • Hold the camera steady.

    Keep your elbows close to your body to hold the camera steady (). In this mode, four shots are aligned and merged into a single image, but if there is significant misalignment in any of the four shots due to camera shake, they may not align properly in the final image.

Caution

  • The image area is smaller than in other shooting modes.
  • RAW image quality cannot be selected.
  • Autofocusing at night or in dark scenes may be difficult when points of light lie within the AF point. In this case, set the focus mode to MF () and focus manually.
  • Shooting moving subjects may result in afterimages from the movement, or darkness around the subject.
  • The image alignment may not function properly with repetitive patterns (lattice, stripes, etc.), flat or single-tone images, or images significantly misaligned due to camera shake.
  • It takes some time to record images to the card since they are merged after shooting. [BUSY] appears on the screen as images are processed, and shooting is not possible until processing is finished.
  • Shots will look slightly different from the preview image shown on the screen.

HDR Backlight Control Mode

Use [HDR backlight control] (HDR Backlight Control) mode for backlit scenes with both bright and dark areas. Shooting once in this mode captures three consecutive images at different exposures, which are combined to create a single HDR image that retains detail in shadows that might otherwise be lost from backlighting.

HDR stands for High Dynamic Range.

Tips Shooting tips

  • Hold the camera steady.

    Keep your elbows close to your body to hold the camera steady (). In this mode, three shots are aligned and merged into a single image. However, if there is significant misalignment in any of the three shots due to camera shake, they may not align properly in the final image.

Caution

  • The image area is smaller than in other shooting modes.
  • RAW image quality cannot be selected.
  • Flash photography is not available.
  • Note that the image may not be rendered with a smooth gradation and may look uneven or noisy.
  • HDR Backlight Control may not be effective for excessively backlit scenes or extremely high-contrast scenes.
  • When shooting subjects that are sufficiently bright as they are, for example for normally lit scenes, the image may look unnatural due to the HDR effect.
  • Shooting moving subjects may result in afterimages from the movement, or darkness around the subject.
  • The image alignment may not function properly with repetitive patterns (lattice, stripes, etc.), flat or single-tone images, or images significantly misaligned due to camera shake.
  • It takes some time to record images to the card since they are merged after shooting. [BUSY] appears on the screen as images are processed, and shooting is not possible until processing is finished.

Fireworks

Use [Fireworks] (Fireworks) mode to shoot fireworks in vivid colors.

Tips Shooting tips

  • Hold the camera steady.

    Mount the camera on a tripod or take other measures to keep it still and prevent camera shake. In addition, it is recommended that you set [Shooting: IS (Image Stabilizer) mode] to [Off] to shoot when securing the camera with a tripod, etc.

    Although no frames are displayed when you press the shutter button halfway, optimal focus is still determined.