Casio QV-30 Fluorescent Lighting, Infrared Light, How to avoid hand movement…, • Never open the battery compartment cover, disconnect the

Recording Images Operation

4. Record the image.						How to avoid hand movement…
•	Compose the image you want to					Any hand movement when you press the shutter button can causes
						blurring of the recorded image. Note the following points on avoiding
	record	while	viewing	it	on the
						hand movement.
	LCD.
•	It is	best to	look at	the	LCD di-	•	Make sure there is no excessive movement of the image of the ob-
							ject on the LCD.
	rectly, and not from an angle.
						•	Use a tripod whenever possible when recording images in dim light-
•	Take	care that your finger			is not
							ing. The camera automatically adjusts shutter speed in accordance
	blocking the lens.
							with the brightness of the object whose image is being recorded.
• Should the lens become dirty, use							Shutter speed is quite slow for dimly lit objects, increasing the pos-
	the cloth that comes with the cam-						sibility of blurring caused by hand movement.
	era to clean it off.
• When the image is situated on the						Fluorescent Lighting
	LCD as you want it, press the
	shutter button.					Fluorescent lighting actually flickers at a frequency that cannot be
• Press the shutter button lightly to avoid moving the camera.						detected by the human eye. When using the camera indoors under
	See page 22 for information on how to avoid hand move-					such lighting, you may experience some brightness or color problems
	ment.					with recorded images. The actual extent of the problems depends on
• The message “WAIT” appears on the LCD for about six sec-						what cycle of the fluorescent light’s flicker is occurring when the
						camera’s shutter actually releases. For best results, use a commer-
	onds along with the image that was recorded when you
						cially available video lights.
	pressed the shutter button. You can use the camera to take
	the next picture after the “WAIT” message disappears.
• Here you could change the function switch to the PLAY posi-						Infrared Light
	tion and view the image you just recorded.
						Infrared light generated by a flash or other source can create image
Caution						color problems, such as red areas being recorded as green. Such
• Never open the battery compartment cover, disconnect the						color problems will show up in the LCD while you are composing the
						image.
AC adaptor from the camera or unplug it from the wall
socket while the “WAIT” message is on the LCD. Doing so
will not only make storage of the current image impossible, it
can also corrupt other image data already stored in camera
memory.
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			Recording Images	Operation
Shooting Images Outdoors				• Any images recorded while the lens body is rotated so the lens is
Strong direct or reflected sunlight can cause recorded images to take				pointed from the back of the camera are stored as mirror images of
				the image	that appears in the LCD before the shutter button is
on a greenish tinge. This is due to the characteristics of the camera’s
				pressed.
optical pickup and it does not indicate malfunction of the camera. One
way you can try to minimize this problem is to set the aperture to [			●]
(F8).
Changing the Lens Orientation
The lens of the camera is built into a lens body that is designed to
rotate. This means you can change the angle of the lens without mov-						A
ing the rest of the camera.
				A	LCD when shutter button is
					pressed (in the Record Mode)
				B	LCD when image is played	B
					back from camera memory
Rotates up to 90	°	towards the front		Important!
				• Do not apply excessive force when rotating the lens body. Doing so
				can cause serious damage to the lens.
				• Do not carry the camera or move it around while holding onto only
				the lens body.
				• Return the lens body to its normal position (with the lens pointing
				from the front of the camera) before storing the camera.
Rotates up to 180	°	towards the back
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