Contents

Before Use

Information for Your Safety . . . . . . . . . . . 2 About These Operating Instructions . . . . 5

Preparation

Standard Accessories . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 Names of the Components . . . . . . . . . . . 9 Quick Guide . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 Charging the Battery with the Charger . . 12 About the Battery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 Inserting/Removing the Battery . . . . . . . 14 Inserting/Removing the Card . . . . . . . . . 15 About the Card . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 Approximate number of recordable

pictures and the size . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 Attaching the Lens Cap/Strap . . . . . . . . 20 Setting Date/Time (Clock Set) . . . . . . . . 21 Setup Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 About the LCD Monitor . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26

Recording pictures (basic)

Taking Pictures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29 Taking Pictures in Auto Mode . . . . . . . . 34 Checking the Recorded Picture

(Review) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36 Using the Optical Zoom . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37 Taking Pictures using the

Built-in Flash . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 Taking Pictures with the Self-timer . . . . 43 Compensating the Exposure . . . . . . . . . 44 Taking Pictures using Auto Bracket . . . . 45 Optical Image Stabilizer

[STABILIZER] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46 Taking Pictures using Burst Mode . . . . . 47

Playback (basic)

Playing Back Pictures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48

9/16/25 Pictures Multi Playback . . . . . . . 49

Using the Playback Zoom . . . . . . . . . . . 50

Deleting Pictures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51

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Recording pictures (advanced)

Using the Mode Dial

53

Aperture-priority AE

53

Shutter-priority AE

54

• Manual exposure

55

• Motion picture mode

58

• Scene mode

60

– Portrait mode

61

– Sports mode

61

– Food mode

62

– Scenery mode

62

– Night portrait mode

63

– Night scenery mode

63

– Baby mode

64

– Soft skin mode

65

– Candle light mode

65

– Party mode

66

– Fireworks mode

66

– Snow mode

67

– Starry sky mode

67

– Self portrait mode

68

Using the [REC] mode menu

69

• White Balance [W.BALANCE] . . . . 70

• ISO Sensitivity [SENSITIVITY] . . . .

72

• Picture Size [PICT.SIZE]

72

• Quality [QUALITY]

73

• Audio Recording [AUDIO REC.] . . .

74

• Metering Mode

 

[METERING MODE]

74

• AF Mode [AF MODE]

75

• Continuous AF [CONT.AF]

76

• AF Assist Lamp

 

[AF ASSIST LAMP]

76

• Digital Zoom [D.ZOOM]

77

• Colour Effect [COL.EFFECT]

77

• Picture Adjustment [PICT.ADJ.] . . .

78

• Flip Animation [FLIP ANIM.]

78

Using the Quick setting

81

Taking Pictures with Manual Focus . . .

82

AF/AE Lock (AF: Auto focus/AE: Auto

 

exposure)

84

AF Macro mode

85

Setting the aspect ratio

86

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