SP Scene Recognition

You can also manually select the scene setup you want, which includes a few more options harder to detect automatically. These are worth a little explanation.

* Natural Light turns off the flash, bumps up ISO and relies on the available natural light to capture the image. That's my favorite setting and is almost never seen on a digicam. Sure, you can leave it in Auto and turn of the flash in many cameras, but having a dedicated mode saves some fiddling with the controls.

* Natural & Flash requires you to pop up the Flash to take both a natural light shot and a flash shot. So that's two shots for every shutter press. This is very handy for backlit subjects where you can't decide it you want to help the light with the flash or not.

* Zoom Bracketing takes three shots for every shutter press, using different zoom settings. The current zoom setting is used for the first shot, which is taken at the Large image size. The second shot is zoomed in 1.4x and cropped to Medium image size. The third is zoomed in 2x and cropped to Small image size. So the lens position never changes but the image processor crops the captured image. Two frames are shown in this mode to indicate what the crops will be. You can switch between landscape and portrait orientation by pressing the Down key. You can't use digital zoom in this mode.

* Smile holds the shutter until Intelligent Face Detection detects a smile. It's a self-timer for happiness.

* Portrait softens detail and emphasized natural skin tones.

* Landscape optimizes the camera for daylight shots of subjects at infinity.

* Sport gives priority to fast shutter speeds using High Speed shooting, reducing focusing time, and sets the EVF/LCD mode to 60 fps.

* Night raises ISO sensitivity for twilight or night scenes.

* Night (Tripod) goes further than Night by using slow shutter speeds, assuming the camera is stabilized.

* Fireworks uses slow shutter speeds to capture the movement of fireworks through the night sky. The EV button lets you select a specific shutter speed.

* Sunset records the vivid colors of either sunset or sunrise.

* Snow adjusts exposure for bright snow scenes.

* Beach adjusts exposure for bright beach scenes.

* Party optimizes camera settings for low-light party conditions.

* Flower sets the camera to Macro mode and vivid color.

* Text sets the camera to Macro mode and adjusts exposure for high-key subjects like paper.




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