Camera menu, Changing the image quality Quality

Camera menu (continued)

Changing the image quality

— quality

You can select the quality of the picture to be taken. Settings STD, FINE and TIFF offer increasing levels of image quality with correspondingly large file sizes.

Taking pictures in succession (consecutive shot)

— mode

Off (default setting)

The consecutive shot mode is

disabled.

Enabling/disabling Direct Shutter

— d.shutter

You can disable Direct Shutter so that it

will not be set off when the shutter button is pressed unintentionally, such as when the camera is in your bag.

Adjusting the exposure

— exposure

Although this camera automatically sets the appropriate exposure (AE), you can change the automatic setting to the exposure you want. However, you may not get the desired

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FINE (default setting)

Images are recorded in high-quality (low-compression) JPEG format (Medium file size).

STD

Images are recorded in standard-quality (high-compression) JPEG format (Small file size).

TIFF

Images are recorded in non-compressed TIFF format with no compression noise (Large file size).

TIFF cannot be selected when the consecutive shot mode is set to on or the hand mode is set to On or Auto.

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										On


										This setting allows you to take
										four pictures in succession
		��								four pictures in succession
		��								when you keep the shutter
										when you keep the shutter
										button pressed down.
										Approximately four pictures
										are taken in 2 seconds while
										you keep the shutter button
										pressed. In consecutive shot
										mode, no images are displayed
										on the screen.
										Fix the composition in the
										finder before you press the
										shutter button.
										You cannot use this setting
										when the image quality is set
										to TIFF. Both flash and camera
										shake correction are disabled
										in consecutive shot mode.

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On (default setting)

Enables the Direct Shutter function.

Off

Disables Direct Shutter.

effect when the scene is too bright or too dark.

The default setting is +0.0.

1Display the exposure compensation screen using the touch pad.

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2Touch the center of the touch pad to display the exposure setting screen.

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3Adjust the exposure while referring to the screen. For a lighter exposure, slide your finger from left to right over the touch pad; for a darker exposure, slide you finger in the opposite direction. Each time you slide your finger across the touch pad, the exposure increases or decreases in increments of 0.3 EV (15 steps, +2.1 EV to -2.1 EV).

Under-exposure

Adjust in the “+” direction.

Over-exposure

Adjust in the “-” direction.

4Touch the center of the touch pad to apply the new setting.

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