Instructions
Copyright
Legal and other notices
Radio and Television Interference
Trademarks
Playing Back Images for Viewing Managing Stored Pictures
Appendices*, Glossary, Index
Camedia E-10 Features
High Quality Images
Functionality
Operability
How to Use This Manual
Important Safety INSTRUCTlONS
Risk of Electric Shock Do not Open
Handling Batteries
Important Safety INSTRUCTlONS
Handling the Camera
Camera Care and Storage Handling
Selecting batteries for your camera
Monitor and control panel light
Caring for Your Camera
Lens
Monitor
General care tips
Contents
Taking Pictures Using a Flash
Taking Pictures Special Features
111
Taking Pictures Distance and Focus
137
145
157
167
191
196
Glossary of Selected Terms
Index
Important Parts and Names
Main dial and sub dial
Lens Battery compartment
Monitor Lock/release button Allows you to raise monitor
Change angle of view Protect button
Shutter button
Control panel
Viewfinder
Monitor Display During Shooting
Page
How to use this manual
Getting Started
Box Contents Make Sure You Have Everything
Attaching the Camera Strap
Battery service life
Inserting Batteries and Attaching the Optional AC Adapter
Inserting the lithium battery pack CR-V3
Make sure that the card access lamp is off
Power is OFF Power is on
Remove the battery holder
Inserting AA Ni-MH sold separately, Alkaline, or Ni-Cd
Before loading batteries
These batteries cannot be used
Inserting the optional lithium polymer battery B-10LPB
Connecting the AC adapter with the battery installed
DC in jack AC adapter power cord plug Power outlet
Use the correct power source
Connecting and disconnecting the AC adapter
If a malfunction occurs
Taking Pictures
Shooting and Viewing Basics
Inserting a Memory Card
SmartMedia SM provided CompactFlash CF sold separately
With both cards set in the camera
Insert the card SmartMedia card
CompactFlash card
Removing a CompactFlash card
Setting the Shooting Mode and Switching the Camera On
Control panel difficult to see?
If the lens cap is attached, remove it
Checking the Battery
Lithium polymer battery
Battery Check Display Meaning
Checking the Number of Storable Pictures
Memory card storage capacity
If you intend to use the images on a computer
2240 x 1680 Full Shots
When the Number of Storable Pictures Is Not Displayed
Blinking in the control panel?
Blinking in other situation not described above?
When the subject in the viewfinder is dark
Holding the Camera
Framing a picture with the viewfinder
Incorrect
Framing a picture with the monitor
Cannot see through the monitor?
Press the monitor button
Compose the picture in the monitor
Pushing the Shutter Button
Way
Camera can be set to emit a sound at shutter release
Low battery warning blinks immediately after taking a shot?
Taking pictures without half-pressing
Gently half-press the shutter
Button
If You Cannot Take a Picture
Message displayed in the viewfinder?
Four segments lit in the memory gauge?
If you see Card 0 blinking in the viewfinder
Taking Pictures Distance and Focus Using Manual Focus MF
Enlarging the Subject Zoom and Macro
Autofocus and close-up shots Macro
Shooting distance and range
Shooting distance and perceived distortion
Using the Built-in Flash
Flash will not fire?
Press the flash button
Half-press the shutter button
For more details about how to use the flash
Flash working range
Ft.~8.9 m 29.4 ft
Set the mode dial to playback
Viewing Pictures Playback
Use the arrow button pointers to view other images
To return to the shooting mode
When mode dial is set to playback
When mode dial is set to P, A, S, or M
Cannot enter playback mode?
Enlarged display
Display
Using the remote control
Index display
Main dial and sub dial
Use the pointers on the arrow pad
Protecting Pictures
To remove protection
To protect all images on a card
Press the protect button
Reusing memory cards
Pictures which cannot be deleted
Press Button
Pointers On the arrow pad to
Switching the Camera Off
Move the power switch to OFF
Attach the lens cap
Shooting Techniques General Introduction
Setting the Aperture Value
Shooting Portraits Focused Subject, Blurred Background
Attaching the Lens Hood When Camera is Not Used
Shooting Portraits Shooting Backlit Subjects
Selecting a Flash Mode
Shooting a Subject in Daylight Shadow Daylight Synchro
Shooting the Subject and Background Both in Focus
Subject not centered in the viewfinder
Setting the Shutter Speed
Shooting Moving Subjects
Taking Multiple Exposures
Using Time-Lapse Photography
Shooting Close-up
Cannot focus the shot?
Capturing stages of a flower blooming
Using Manual Focus MF
Using Preset White Balance
Shooting Night Scenes
Color not what you expect?
Flash mode button Main dial Flash button Control panel
Using Preset White Balance
Shooting Sunsets and Fireworks
Taking Pictures Distance and Focus
Using Autofocus AF
How autofocus operates
Full-press the shutter button to take the picture
Focusing subjects not in the center of the viewfinder
Difficult to focus subjects
Subject of low contrast
Subject with center glare
Two objects at different distances from the camera
Subject without vertical lines
Moving subject
Taking a picture through window
Using Manual Focus MF
Using the focus ring design
Taking Pictures Brightness Exposure
Aperture and Shutter Speed
Setting the Shooting Mode
Program mode
Aperture priority mode
Shutter priority mode
Program mode aperture values and shutter speeds
Adjusting the exposure
Set the mode dial to P Program Mode Take the picture
Using Exposure Compensation
Setting the Aperture Value
Fine adjustment of aperture and shutter speed
Bright spots in the picture?
Large Aperture
Aperture Range
Max.WIDE Max.TELE
Setting the Shutter Speed
To prevent camera shake
Aperture value is blinking, and the value is at the maximum?
Selecting Aperture and Shutter Speed Manually
Slow Fast Shutter Speed
Exposure
Selecting the Metering Method
Brightness of center and surrounding area different?
While holding down the metering
Take the picutre
Using Exposure Compensation
Adjusting the flash intensity
When the shutter button is half-pressed
AE Lock
With the button still pressed down, take the picture
Bracketing a Shot with Three Automatic Exposures
Press the menu button
On the arrow pad, press and select 3 to replace OFF
Sequential mode
Bracketing a Shot with Three Automatic Exposures
Changing the ISO Setting
On the arrow pad, press or
Menu opens in the monitor
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Taking Pictures Using a Flash
Selecting a Flash Mode
Flash mode selections and features
Auto Flash
Slow Synchronization
Fill-in Flash
Red-eye Reduction
Flash mode
Flash Timimg
1st-curtain
Auto flash
When the flash is not required
Using Flash Control Compensation
Press the button
Using the Optional Dedicated External Flash FL-40
To set the flash mode for the FL-40
To use only the dedicated external flash
Using the flash with close-up photography
Switch on the dedicated external flash unit
Select the flash mode Take the picture
Preventing the dedicated external flash from firing
Using Other Flash Units with the Camera
Setting a non-dedicated flash unit
Using auto flash controlled by the external flash
Requirements for other flash units used with this camera
Using a non-dedicated flash unit
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Taking Pictures Color and Quality
Preset white balance
Achieving Natural Color White Balance
Auto white balance
Quick reference white balance
Preset white balance settings and color temperature
White balance with a flash
Monitor display
2000 3000 4000
Using White Balance
100
Using Quick Reference White Balance
101
Press the quick reference white Balance button
Press Button if the colors Monitor appear natural
Using Preset White Balance
102
Selecting Image Quality, Resolution, and Compression
Quality Record mode
Quality settings
103
Setting resolution and compression
Resolution
104
Compression
If you do not want to change Compression setting, go to Step
105
Selecting Sharpness
106
Selecting the Contrast
107
Switching the histogram display on and off
Displaying the Histogram
108
To adjust exposure compensation while viewing the histogram
Set the mode dial to the playback mode
To display the histogram during playback
109
110
Taking Pictures Special Features
Taking Multiple Exposures
112
Camera will not shoot after pressing shutter button?
Using the Self-Timer
To cancel self-timer mode
Self-timer lamp
113
Using the Camera Remote Unit RM-1
114
Working range of the remote unit
Remote mode focusing
To cancel remote mode
115
To take a picture with the shutter button
Using the Remote Cable RM-CB1 Optional
116
117
Using Time-Lapse Photography
118
119
Minutes
On the arrow pad, press to Move the green highlight to YES
Then press Button
120
Actual time interval
Viewing pictures during time lapse photography
When you switch the camera on
Selecting a Card for Storing Pictures
121
Selecting the Shutter Sound Type and Volume
Set the mode dial to P, A, S, or M Press the menu button
122
123
Setting the Warning Sound
124
Setting the Rec View Time
125
Setting the Date and Time
126
Press or to display the date format that you want to set
Year, Month, Day
First setting
127
Set the year, month, day, hours
Minutes with 2-digit numbers
Setting the Idle Time for the Sleep Mode
128
It remains idle for 1 minute Minute
129
Restoring All Default Settings +
Mode Record mode Buttons together
Factory default settings
130
RAW Data Mode
131
Set the mode dial to P, A, S, or M and take the picture
132
Using an Optional Conversion Lens
Zoom Setting
133
Conversion Lens Type
134
You are using
135
Press and hold down the macro
Set the zoom position according to
136
Playing Back Images For Viewing
Displaying Image Information
138
139
Automatic Playback Slide Show
140
141
Slide shows in the index display
To end the slide show, press the button or the menu button
Displaying Images on a TV Screen
142
143
Images off-center on the TV screen?
Images appear with black frame?
Viewing pictures, index display, enlarged display
Adjusting Monitor Brightness
144
Monitor mark
On the arrow pad, press
Managing Stored Pictures
Copying Images to Another Card
Copying all images to another card
146
147
Cannot copy?
Folder and file names of copied pictures
Copying images not taken with this camera
Copying only selected images
148
Follow Steps 1~5 for copying all images
149
Set the mode dial to P, A, S, M or to playback
Deleting All Images
150
Card access
151
You can also delete images one by one
Lamp
Formatting a Memory Card
152
Card access lamp
153
Naming Image Files
154
155
156
Selecting Pictures for Printing
Set the mode dial to print reserve
Selecting Pictures and Number of Copies for Printing
158
Display the picture that you want to select for printing
To cancel print selection
You can also cancel all pictures selected for printing
159
Changing the number of copies
Selecting All Pictures on a Card for Printing
160
On the arrow pad, press to
To cancel all pictures selected for printing
161
Pictures shot after reserving all frames for printing
Setting Up Index Printing
162
Cancelling all pictures selected for index printing
163
Taking a picture after selecting index printing
Index Printing
Set the mode dial to print reserve Press the menu button
Selecting Pictures for Date or Time Stamping
164
165
Printing with Olympus Printers
166
Transferring Pictures to a Computer
Options for reading images from memory cards. a variety
Connecting the camera to a computer for the first time
Transferring Images with a Computer Connection Kit
168
Open the connector cover on
Connect the B connector
USB cable the large connector to
Set the mode dial to Setup
Removing a card while the camera is connected to a computer
170
Windows 98, Windows
Mac OS
Disconnecting the USB cable
171
Windows 98, Mac OS
Windows
Optional Devices for Card Reading
172
Card Type Device
Monitor Menus
Monitor Menus
174
Priority mode, S Shutter priority mode, M Manual mode
175
Setup/connection mode menu
176
Camera Error Messages
Appendices
Appendix 1 Specifications
178
Operating environment Temperature Humidity Power supply
Dimensions
Weight
179
Appendix 2 Available Options
180
Floppy Disk Adapter FlashPath MAFP-2N
SmartMedia Reader/Writer MAUSB-1 Printer P-400/P-330N
Appendix 3 Image File Compatibility
181
Appendix 4 Troubleshooting
Operational problems
Problem Solution
182
Camera does not operate when you press the shutter button?
183
184
Monitor and viewfinder displays are different
Cannot play back images on the monitor
185
Built-in flash does not fire
Monitor difficult to see
Cannot transfer data to computer
Pictures unsatisfactory
186
Pictures blurred, out of focus, not sharp
187
Pictures are too bright
Picture is too dark
Part of the picture is missing
You have forgotten what settings you selected in the menus
188
Colors are odd
Date incorrect
Appendix 5 Camera Error Messages
Control Monitor Explanation Solution Panel
189
Appendix 5 Camera Error Messages
190
Glossary of Selected Terms
191
192
193
194
195
Index
196
197
Control panel
198
Index
199
Printing
200
Shutter speed