Taking pictures and videos

Using the flip-up flash

Use the flash when you take pictures at night, indoors, or outdoors in heavy shadows. You can change the flash setting in most Still modes, except Burst; the default setting is restored when you exit the mode or turn off the camera.

Turning on the flash

 

open

switch

 

Slide the open flash switch to raise

 

the flash and to turn it on.

 

NOTE: The flash unit must be open

 

to use the flash and to change the flash

 

modes. An Open Flash warning appears

 

on the EVF/LCD screen when the flash unit

 

needs to be open.

Changing the flash settings

 

 

button

 

Press the flash button repeatedly to scroll

 

through the flash modes (see Flash modes

 

table).

 

NOTE: The active flash icon is displayed in

 

the EVF/LCD screen status area.

Flash-to-subject distance

 

Zoom position

Flash distance

Wide angle

2–16.1 ft (0.6–4.9 m) @ ISO 140

Telephoto

6.6–12.1 ft (2.0–3.7 m) @ ISO 140

Flash-icon

Cause

Action

behavior

 

 

Blinking

Flash is charging.

Wait. Take picture when the icon stops

 

 

blinking.

 

Flash button is pressed,

Open flash unit or take the picture

 

flash unit is closed.

without flash.

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Kodak DX7590 manual Using the flip-up flash, Turning on the flash, Flash-to-subject distance, Flash distance