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3. Recording Modes
Registering your preferred settings (Custom Mode)
Recording Mode: 
You can register the current camera settings as custom settings.
If you then record in Custom Mode, you can use the registered s ettings.
•
Initial setting of the Program AE Mode is registered as the cus tom settings initially.
To allow recording using the same settings, up to 5 sets of current camera settings can be 
registered using [Cust.Set Mem.]. (
,  ,  ,  , )
Preparations:
Set in advance the Recording Mode...

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 You can easily call up the settings you have registered using [Cust.Set Mem.].
Set the mode dial to [ ], [ ] or [ ].
•The custom set will be called up. If you set the mode dial to [ ], the custom set you used last 
time ([ ], [ ], or [ ]) will be called up.
∫ To change a custom set in [ ]
1Set the mode dial to [ ].
2Press [MENU/SET] to display the menu.
3Press  2/1 to select the custom setting you want to use, and then 
press [MENU/SET].
•Saving of the selected custom settings is...

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4.  Picture Quality and Color Tone 
Settings
Adjusting the Picture Quality by Adding an 
Effect 
([Photo Style])
Applicable modes: 
You can select effects to match the type of image you wish to r ecord.
It is possible to adjust the items such as color or picture qua lity of the effect to your desire.
¢1 This is disabled when Intelligent Auto Plus Mode is selected.
¢ 2 These can be set only in Creative Video Mode.
¢ 3 When the actual brightness and the brightness to be captured a re adjusted at each...

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∫Adjusting the picture quality
•Picture quality cannot be adjusted in the Intelligent Auto Plus  
Mode.
1Press  2/1  to select the type of Photo Style.2Press  3/4  to select the items, and then press  2/1  
to adjust.
¢ 1 [Color Tone] is displayed only when [Monochrome] is selected.  In other cases, 
[Saturation] will be displayed.
¢ 2 Displayed only when [Monochrome] is selected.
•If you adjust the picture quality, [ _] is displayed beside the Photo Style...

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4. Picture Quality and Color Tone Settings
Recording Images with Image Effects 
([Filter Settings])
Applicable modes: 
You can apply image effects (filters) that are available for Cr eative Control Mode to images 
in other modes, such as Aperture-Priority AE Mode or Panorama S hot Mode.
•
You can apply image effects that are available for Creative 
Control Mode by performing the same operations as those for 
Creative Control Mode. For information on each image effect, it s 
adjustable settings, and...

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•[Rough Monochrome]/[Silky Monochrome]/[Miniature Effect]¢/[Soft Focus]/[Star Filter]/
[Sunshine] are not available in the following cases.
–Creative Video Mode–When recording motion pictures
–When recording 4K photos
¢  In Creative Video Mode or when  recording motion pictures, this item is not available only if 
the motion picture size is set to [4K] in [Rec Quality].
•[Toy Effect]/[Toy Pop]/[Miniature Effect]/[Sunshine] are not av ailable in Panorama Shot...

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4. Picture Quality and Color Tone Settings
You can press the shutter button once and take two pictures simultaneously, one with an 
image effect and the other one without it.
Settings: [ON]/[OFF]
•
When this item is set to [ON], a picture with an image effect w ill be taken first, followed by a 
picture without it.
•Only an image with an image effect is displayed for Auto Review .
•If the drive mode is set to [Burst], [4K PHOTO] or [Auto Bracket], it is switched to [Single].
Not available in these...

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Adjusting Bright/Dark Portions ([Highlight Shadow])
You can adjust the brightness of bright and dark portions on an image while checking the 
brightness on the screen.
1Select the menu. (P63)
2Press  2/1 to select the item.
3Rotate the front/rear dial to adjust the 
brightness of bright/dark portions.
A Bright portion
B Dark portion
C Preview display
•The rear dial is for adjusting dark areas, and the front 
dial is for adjusting bright areas.
•To register a...

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4. Picture Quality and Color Tone Settings
Adjusting the White Balance
Applicable modes: 
In sunlight, under incandescent lights or in other such conditions where the color of white 
takes on a reddish or bluish tinge, this item adjusts to the co lor of white which is closest to 
what is seen by the eye in acc ordance with the light source.
1Press 1 ( ).
2Rotate the rear dial or front dial to select the 
White Balance.
[AWB] Automatic adjustment
[V ] When taking pictures outdoors under a clear sky
[Ð...

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¢ It will operate as [AWB] when recording motion pictures or 4K photos.
3Press [MENU/SET] to set.
•You can also press the shutter button halfway to set.
[]
You can set the color temperature manually for 
taking natural pictures in different lighting 
conditions.
The color of light is measured as a number in 
degrees Kelvin. As the color temperature 
increases, the picture becomes more bluish. As the color 
temperature decreases, the picture becomes more...
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