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RECORDING MODE
SHUTTER RELEASE BUTTON
The Leica S has a three-stage shutter release button (1.1):
1. Briefly tapping it activates the distance and exposure metering systems, as
well as the displays in the viewfinder and on the top panel.
Holding the shutter release button at this pressure point keeps the meter-
ing systems and displays active.
When the shutter release button is released, the metering systems and
displays remain active for around 12s.
Notes:
• If review mode was previously set (see p. 56), tapping the shutter release
button switches the camera back to recording mode, and if it was previous-
ly in standby mode (see p. 30), it is reactivated, i.e. metering systems and
displays are turned on.
• The shutter release button is locked
- if the internal buffer memory is temporarily full, e.g. after a series of pic-
tures (also applies if no memory card is inserted), or
- if the memory card(s) inserted is/are full.
2. Pressing the shutter release button to the pressure point and holding
it in this position stores the metered exposure value for spot and cen-
ter-weighted metering in
, and modes (see p. 44/45). When using
autofocus in
AFs - Sharpness priority - mode (see p. 37) the focus setting
is saved at the same time. Letting go of the shutter release button enables
new measurements to be carried out.
Note:
You can also use the menu to set the joystick (1.17) to store the metered
exposure value and/or the automatic focus setting (see p. 39).
3. Pressing further releases the shutter or starts any preselected self timer
delay time (see p. 46).
Series exposures
You can not only use the Leica S to take single pictures but also to produce a
series of pictures.
Setting and using the function
1. In the
CAMERA menu (see p. 10/26), select Drive Mode (5.1), and
2. then
Continuous in the submenu.
3. The subsequent function is then determined by how you operate the shut-
ter release button:
- A series of pictures is taken for as long as you hold the shutter release
button all the way down (and the capacity of the buffer memory or the
memory card(s) is sufficient).
- If you press the shutter release button briefly, the camera continues to
take single pictures.
Notes:
• The camera's buer memory only allows a limited number of pictures to be
taken in a series (see p. 73). When you press the shutter release button to
the pressure point or during a series of pictures, the display in the viewfind-
er (2.10a) indicates how many (more) pictures are possible in a series.
• Regardless of how many pictures have been taken in a series, both review
modes (see p. 56) initially show the last picture in the series or the last
picture in the series saved on the currently active card (see p. 60), if not all
of the pictures in the series have been transferred from the internal buffer
memory to the relevant card yet.
Details of how to select the other pictures in the series and further options
in the review modes are described in the corresponding sections starting
on p. 56.
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