Casio QV-770 Shooting Images Outdoors, 1. Press, to select the flash mode, CAUTION, RECORDING, IMPORTANT, RECORDING, IMPORTANT, Resolution Settings

RECORDING

• Viewing the subject on the monitor screen, carefully

Shooting Images Outdoors

Using the Flash

IMPORTANT!

compose it within the frames provided on the screen.

•

Never use

the flash on areas where combustible or

Note that strong direct or reflected light can cause vertical

You can use the built-in flash unit to provide illumination dur-

• Take care to avoid blocking the lens with your fingers.

explosive gas is present. Doing so creates the danger

•

Carefully press the shutter button,

taking care not to

lines in

an image. This is due to the characteristics of the

ing recording. Auto Flash causes the flash to fire automati-

of fire and explosion.

camera’s charge-coupled device (CCD), and it does not indi-

cally whenever the shutter button is pressed while available

•

Never fire the flash in the direction of a person operat-

move the camera as you do.

cate malfunction of the camera.

light is below a certain level.

ing a motor vehicle. Doing so can interfere with the

• You can view images immediately after you record

1. Press

to select the flash mode.

driver’s vision and create the danger of accident.

them by sliding the Function Switch to the PLAY.

•

Never fire the flash while it is too close to the subject’s

• Each press

cycles

through the flash

eyes. Be

especially careful with small

children. In-

CAUTION

tense light from the flash can cause eye damage if it is

modes in the following sequence: Auto Flash

Flash

fired too close to the eyes, especially with young chil-

• Never open the battery compartment cover, discon-

On “

”

Flash Off “

”.

dren. When using the flash, the camera should be at

nect the AC adaptor from the camera or unplug it from

least one meter (3.3') from the eyes of the subject.

the wall socket while the “WAIT” message is on the

Indicator

Flash Mode

Description

•

Make sure that you do not touch or block the flash or

LCD. Doing so will not only make storage of the cur-

None

Auto Flash

Flash is automatically enabled and

exposure sensor with your fingers. Doing so can soil

rent image impossible, it can also corrupt other image

disabled in accordance with expo-

these components and interfere with correct flash op-

data already stored in camera memory.

sure conditions.

eration.

•

Fluorescent lighting

actually flickers at a frequency

Flash On

Flash is always fired, regardless of

•

Flash should be used for distances within the range of

that cannot be detected by the human eye. When us-

about 0.7 meters to 3 meters (2.3' to 9.8'). Flash does

exposure conditions.

not work well outside this range.

ing the camera indoors under such lighting, you may

Flash Off

Flash is never fired, regardless of

•

Depending on operating

conditions

(type

of battery

experience some brightness or color problems with

exposure conditions.

being used, temperature, etc.), it may take up to 10

recorded images.

seconds for the flash unit to charge.

• The image on the monitor screen is cleared and the

•

The flash does not fire in the following modes: Serial,

NOTE

Charge Lamp flashes while the flash unit is charging.

Movie, Self-timer (movie or future). The

indicator

This

camera is equipped

with “flash

memory” that re-

flashes to indicate this condition.

•

The flash

unit will not

charge when

battery power

tains images even when batteries go dead and the AC

low. The

indicator flashes red to warn you that the

adaptor is not connected. Images can be recalled after

CHARGE

/Tran-P

F N E

MODE

flash will not fire correctly, which may affect exposure

new

batteries are loaded or the AC

adaptor is con-

of the image. Replace batteries as soon as possible

nected.

Charge

lamp

when this happens.

RECORDING

Changing the Lens Orientation

• Any images recorded while the lens body is rotated so the

NORMAL/MACRO Switch

Resolution Settings

lens is pointed from the back of the camera are stored as

The lens of the camera is built into a lens body that is de-

mirror images of the image that appears in the LCD before

The NORMAL/MACRO switch tells the

Pressing

cycles through the available resolution set-

signed to rotate. This means you can change the angle of

the shutter button is pressed.

camera how much distance there will

tings. Each press

cycles

through

the

resolution

the lens without moving the rest of the camera.

be between the lens and the object

setting in the following sequence:

(Fine)

(Normal)

whose image you are recording. The

(Economy).

following table describes the condi-

tions covered by each switch setting.

is shown on the monitor screen

whenever the macro position is in use.

CHARGE

/Tran-P

MODE

(NORMAL)

(MACRO)

A .... LCD when shutter button is

Focus Range

0.7m ~

∞

14cm ~ 16cm

Rotates up to 90

Rotates up to 180

pressed (in the Record

(2.3' ~∞ )

(5.5" ~ 6.3")

Setting

Resolution

Number of Images

towards the front

towards the back

Mode)

Indicator

The above figures indicate the distance from the lens protec-

B .... LCD when image is played

Fine

30 (minimum)

back from camera memory

tion filter to the subject.

(approx. 124KB compressed image)

Normal

60 (minimum)

IMPORTANT!

(approx. 62KB compressed image)

Economy

120

• Do not apply excessive force when rotating the lens

(approx. 32KB compressed image)

body. Doing so can cause serious damage to the lens.

•

Do not carry the camera or move it around while hold-

• The above figures are approximations only. The

actual

ing onto only the lens body.

number of images depends on image subject matter.

•

Return the lens body to its normal position (with the

• Up to 120 images (total of

, ,

images)

lens pointing from the front of the camera) before stor-

ing the camera.

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