Casio QV-5500SX Panorama Recording, Night Scene Mode, Using Multiple Exposure, To record two new images, (MULTIPLE, EXPOSURE), (PANORAMA), ter button, shutter button

OTHER RECORDING FUNCTIONS

IMPORTANT!

Panorama Recording

3.Compose the image and then record it.

Night Scene Mode

•

Flash is disabled during movie recording.

• The right edge of the previous image you recorded re-

With panorama recording you record a series of images and

The Night Scene Mode is for recording images in dark areas.

•

Movie

images that are uploaded

to a

personal com-

mains on the monitor screen, so you can align it cor-

then link them to create a single panoramic effect.

When recording images of people on a twilight or night time

puter

and then

download back to

the

camera

cannot

rectly with the next image.

background, you can use the flash in combination

with the

be played back as a movie. Uploading a movie image

• From the second image onwards, aim the camera fur-

Night Scene Mode for slow synchro recording.

to a

computer

ungroups it, so you will not

be able to

ther to the right and overlap the next image with

the

play it

back when you download it back to the camera

unless

you re-group them using the procedure on

previous one on the monitor screen.

•

Up to nine images can be grouped into a panorama.

page 67.

Press MENU when you want to stop a panorama re-

NOTE

cording operation.

1. Slide the Function Switch to REC.

• Aperture setting and white balance settings are locked

Movie Length and Number of Images

when you record the first image of a panorama, and

these settings are applied to all subsequent images in

Length

320 x 240

160 x 120

2. Press MODE and then select

(PANORAMA).

1. Slide the Function Switch to REC.

File Format:

JPEG

that panorama.

3.2 seconds

6 sets (1088KB)

27 sets (272KB)

•

If you want to link more than 9 images into a

pan-

2. Press MODE and then select

(NIGHT SCENE).

6.4 seconds

3 sets (2176KB)

13 sets (544KB)

Panorama

orama, upload the images to a computer and use your

computer application to link them.

9.6 seconds

2 sets (3264KB)

9 sets (816KB)

Recording

• See “Panorama Playback” on page 68 for details on

File Format:

AVI

Mode

3.2 seconds

8 sets (896KB)

30 sets (224KB)

playing back panoramas.

6.4 seconds

4 sets (1792KB)

16 sets (448KB)

9.6 seconds

3 sets (2100KB)

10 sets (672KB)

* When using 8MB CF card.

3.Compose the image and then record it.

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OTHER RECORDING FUNCTIONS		OTHER RECORDING FUNCTIONS

IMPORTANT!

Using AEB (Auto Exposure Bracketing)

Using Multiple Exposure

3.Use [+] and [–] to move the image over which

•

The shutter

speed

quite slow

the Night

Scene

you want to record another image to the center

When AEB is turned on, the same image is recorded using

Multiple exposure lets you

record an image over another

Mode, so you

should

sure to

use

tripod

hold

of the monitor screen, and then press the shut-

three different exposure settings.

one. You can record over

an existing image already in

the camera steady. Note

that the

camera shake

indi-

ter button.

• This feature records three images at exposures of –0.5EV,

memory, or you can record two new images. You can also

cator does not appear in the Night Scene Mode.

± 0EV, and +0.5EV.

use the Record Menu (page 59) to specify the brightness of

4.Use the semi-transparent image to compose

•

Slow shutter speed also causes slow monitor screen

the combined images.

refresh. Because of this, the image recorded may be

the new image, and then record it.

1. Slide the Function Switch to REC.

slightly different from the image that was on the moni-

tor screen when you pressed the shutter button.

2. Press MODE, and then select

To record two new images

• Auto Focus is difficult in the dark. If you experience

AEB .

problems, use manual focusing (page 50). There may

be some blurring of the image if the subject is fast

1. Perform steps 1 through 2 under “To record a

moving.

new image over an existing image”.

•

In the Night Scene Mode, Quick Shutter records up to

To record a new image over an existing image

five consecutive shots.

2. Use [+] and [–] to move “Recording” to the cen-

• The contrast of Night Scene Mode images is not af-

1. Slide the Function Switch to REC.

ter of the monitor screen, and then press the

fected by changes made using the Record Menu's

Contrast (Record Settings) settings.

2. Press MODE, and then select

(MULTIPLE

shutter button.

EXPOSURE).

3.Record the first image.

3.Compose the image and then record it.

• This causes a semi-transparent version of the image

to remain on the monitor screen.

• Since the same image is recorded three times,

the

4.Use the semi-transparent image to compose

record operation takes a bit longer than normal.

the new image, and then record it.

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