Ricoh 500SE manual Press the ! buttons to select Skew COR, Mode

If you are using the camera for the first time, read this section.

Using the Skew Correction Mode

1Turn the mode dial to 5.

2Press the SCENE button.

•The scene mode selection screen appears.

3Press the !" buttons to select [SKEW COR

MODE].

4Press the MENU/OK button.

5Press the shutter release button to shoot the picture.

•The display indicates that the image is being corrected and the area recognized as the correction range is displayed with an orange frame. Up to five areas can be recognized.

•If the target area cannot be detected, an error message appears. The image before correction remains recorded.

•To select another correction area, move the orange frame to the target area by pressing the $ button.

•To cancel skew correction, press the ! button. Even if you cancel skew correction, the image before skew correction remains recorded.

6Press the MENU/OK button.

•The display indicates that the image is being recorded and the corrected image is recorded. The image before correction is also recorded.

Caution-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

When [SKEW COR MODE] is selected, note the following:

•To shoot the subject as large as possible, position it so that the entire portion of the subject is visible on the LCD monitor.

•The camera may fail to recognize the subject in the following cases:

•When the image is out of focus

•When four edges of the subject are not clearly visible

•When it is hard to distinguish between the subject and background

•When the background is complicated

•Two images, one before correction and the other after correction, are recorded. If the number of remaining shots is less than two, you cannot shoot the subject.

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