protective covering for the O-ring that is
housed in the body cap of the camera.
The pop-up flash is sealed internally and
the HDMI ports, battery and memory
card compartments are sealed as well.
The camera also comes with an altimeter,
a depth gauge, an electronic compass and
can record GPS data as well.
This camera has an Action Control
button, allowing you choose between
modes like Motion Snapshot, Best
Moment Capture, Auto, Creative and
Advanced Movie, just by tilting the camera.
With this button, you can adjust the mode
when shooting, and toggle the LCD’s
display when in the menu. While this is a
handy feature to have underwater or when
using with gloved hands, you still have to
use the buttons to go further in.
For example, the Advanced Movie menu
offers a bunch of modes. While I can access
it just by pressing the Action Control button
and tilting, I have to then use the four way
control pad to get to the modes.Other modes under the Creative menu
include Program Mode, Aperture Priority,
Shutter Priority and Manual Mode, along
with Underwater, Backlighting, Night
Portrait, Night Landscape, Soft, Miniature,
Selective Colour and Easy Panorama modes.
One interesting mode is the Motion
Snapshot, which captures a one second clip
of HD video along with a still image. It then
puts the two together with a music track
while playing the video in slow motion.
Here, I wish there were more options for
the tracks as the current ones feature piano
music that doesn’t really go with sports or
underwater scenes.
On the other hand, there is the Best
Moment Capture. It shows you a sequence
of frames from the scene in front of you,
when you half-press the shutter-release
button. From this sequence, you can either
select one frame by pressing the shutter-
release in Slow View or have the camera
automatically save five frames. This comes in
handy when shooting action scenes or pets.Better PhotograPhy41Leaving the
GPS off is
recommended
as the camera’s
battery life is
average, at best.During RAW
processing, there was a
fair amount of highlights
recovery possible.
Exposure: 1/1600sec at f/6.3
(ISO 160)march 2015
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