Contents

 

Before Use

 

Information for Your Safety

2

Preparation

 

Standard Accessories

8

Names of the Components

9

Attaching the Lens Cap/Strap

11

Attaching the Lens Hood

12

Quick Guide

14

Charging the Battery with the Charger ...

15

About the Battery (charging/

 

number of recordable pictures)

16

Inserting and Removing the Battery/

 

the Card (optional)

17

About the Built-in Memory/the Card

 

(optional)

18

Setting Date/Time (Clock Set)

19

• Changing the clock setting

19

About the Mode Dial

20

Setting the Menu

21

About the Setup Menu

22

LCD Monitor Display/Switching

 

the LCD Monitor Display

26

Basic

 

Taking Pictures

27

Taking Pictures in Simple Mode

30

Taking Pictures with the Zoom

32

• Using the Optical Zoom

32

• Using the Extended Optical Zoom

 

(EZ)

33

• Using the Digital Zoom

 

Further extending the zoom

34

Checking the Recorded Picture

 

(Review)

35

Playing back/Deleting Pictures

36

Advanced (Recording pictures)

About the LCD Monitor/Viewfinder

38

• Changing the information displayed ....

38

• Brightening the LCD Monitor

 

(Power LCD/High angle mode)

41

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Taking Pictures using the Built-in Flash

43

Taking Pictures with the Self-timer

47

Compensating the Exposure

48

Taking Pictures using Auto Bracket

49

Optical Image Stabilizer

50

Taking Pictures using Burst Mode

51

Changing the sensitivity according to

 

the movement of the subject being

 

recorded

52

Taking Close-up Pictures

54

Aperture-priority AE

56

Shutter-priority AE

56

Manual exposure

57

Aperture Value and Shutter Speed

58

Taking Pictures with Manual Focus

59

Taking pictures that match the scene

 

being recorded (Scene mode)

62

– [PORTRAIT]

63

– [SOFT SKIN]

63

– [SCENERY]

63

– [SPORTS]

63

– [PANNING]

64

– [NIGHT PORTRAIT]

64

– [NIGHT SCENERY]

65

– [FOOD]

65

– [PARTY]

65

– [CANDLE LIGHT]

65

– [BABY1]/[BABY2]

66

– [PET]

67

– [SUNSET]

67

– [HIGH SENS.]

67

– [STARRY SKY]

67

– [FIREWORKS]

68

– [BEACH]

69

– [SNOW]

69

– [AERIAL PHOTO]

69

Motion Picture Mode

70

Recording which day of

 

the vacation you take the picture

72

Displaying the time at

 

the travel destination (World Time)

74

Using the [REC] Mode Menu

76

• [W.BALANCE]

 

Adjusting the hue for

 

a more natural picture

77

• [WB ADJUST.]

 

Finely adjusting the white balance ...

78

• [SENSITIVITY]

 

Setting the light sensitivity

79

• [ASPECT RATIO]

 

Setting the aspect ratio of pictures ....

80

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