Setting the Current Date and Time

 

Getting Acquainted

4. Use [+] and [–] to select ADJUST, and then press the shut-

 

3. Use [+] and [–] to select ADJUST, and then press the shut-

ter button.

 

ter button.

5.

Set the current date and time.

4. Use [+] and [–] to select STYLE, and then press the shutter

 

• Use [+] and [–] to select the setting that is highlighted on the

button.

 

monitor screen, and then press the shutter button to

 

 

advance to the next setting. Repeat this for all of the settings

 

 

on the monitor screen.

 

6.After making all the settings on the monitor screen, press

 

 

MENU to register them.

 

To select the date format

5. Use [+] and [–] to select the date format you want, and then

press the shutter button.

 

 

Example: May 12, 1998

 

You can select any one of the following formats for the above date:

 

1998/5/12, 12/5/1998, 5/12/1998.

 

1.

Slide the function switch to the PLAY position.

 

2.

Press MENU.

 

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Recording Images

 

Recording Images

Operation

 

 

 

The following procedure provides the basic steps for recording an

5. Use

button to enter the resolution mode you want.

image.

 

 

•

Each press of

button cycles the resolution in the

 

 

 

To record an image

 

 

 

following sequence:

(FINE)

(NORMAL)

 

 

 

(ECONOMY).

 

 

1. Enter the Record Mode.

 

REC

• See “Resolution Modes” on

page 36 for details on the

• Slide the function

switch to

the

 

number of images that can be stored on the memory card for

 

 

each resolution.

 

 

REC position.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

2. Set the dial to

for normal recording.

6.Record the image.

 

 

• You can perform steps 1 and 2 in

 

•

Compose the image you want to record while viewing it on

 

 

the LCD.

 

 

either order (1 then 2, or 2 then 1).

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

• It is best to look at the LCD directly, and not from an angle.

3. Turn on the camera.

 

 

• Take care that your finger is not

 

 

 

 

blocking the lens and exposure

 

 

• Slide the POWER switch in the di-

 

sensor.

 

 

rection indicated by the arrow.

DEL

 

 

 

 

POWER

 

 

 

 

• The POWER switch automatically

ON/OFF

 

 

 

 

 

• When the image is situated on the LCD as you want it, press

slides back to its original position

 

the shutter button.

 

 

when you release it.

 

 

• Press the shutter button lightly to avoid moving the camera.

• When power comes on, the image of the object that is in

 

See page 33 for information on how to avoid hand move-

front of the camera’s lens appears on the LCD.

 

ment.

 

 

4. Set the NORMAL/MACRO switch to

(NORMAL) posi-

• Here you could change the function switch to the PLAY posi-

tion.

 

 

 

tion and view the image you just recorded.

 

• If the object whose image you are

 

• Note that you can also select a

memory card folder

into

recording is about 15 centimeters

 

 

which recorded images should be placed (page 68).

 

from the lens (about 6 inches), set

 

 

 

 

the NORMAL/MACRO switch to

 

 

 

 

 

(MACRO). See page 36 for

 

 

 

 

details on using this switch.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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