Olympus X-560WP - Shooting Tips: Exposure, Color, Quality, Battery; Exposure and brightness; Color hue (White Balance); Image quality

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Exposure (brightness)
“Taking pictures with the right
brightness”
Taking pictures using [FACE DETECT] (p. 27)
Appropriateexposureisobtainedforaface
againstthebacklight,andthefaceisbrightened.
Takingpicturesusing[FILLIN](p.20)ash
Asubjectagainstabacklightisbrightened.
Taking pictures using exposure compensation
(p. 21)
Adjustthebrightnesswhileviewingthescreen
fortakingthepicture.Normally,takingpicturesof
whitesubjects(suchassnow)resultsinimages
thataredarkerthantheactualsubject.Usethe
Fbuttontoadjustinthepositivedirectionto
expresswhitesastheyappear.Whentaking
picturesofblacksubjects,ontheotherhand,itis
effectivetoadjustinthenegativedirection.
Color hue
“Taking pictures with colors at the same
shade as they appear”
Taking pictures by selecting [WB] (p. 25)
Bestresultsinmostenvironmentscannormally
beobtainedwiththeAUTOsetting,butforsome
subjects,youshouldtryexperimentingwith
differentsettings.(Thisisespeciallytruefor
sunshadeunderaclearsky,mixednaturaland
articiallightsettings,andsoon.)
Image quality
“Taking sharper pictures”
Taking pictures with the optical zoom
Avoidusingdigitalzoom(p.20)totakepictures.
Taking pictures at a low ISO sensitivity
IfthepictureistakenwithahighISOsensitivity,
noise(smallcoloredspotsandcolorunevenness
thatwerenotintheoriginalimage)canoccur,and
theimagecanappeargrainy.
[ISO](p.25)
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Battery
“Making battery last longer”
Avoid performing the following operations as
much as possible as they use up battery power
even if no pictures are actually taken
Repeatedlypressingtheshutterbutton
halfway.
Repeatedlyusingthezoom.
Set [POWER SAVE] (p. 33) to [ON]
Playback/Editing tips
Playback
“Playing images in the internal memory
and card”
Remove the card when playing back pictures
in the internal memory
“Loadingthebatteryandthe
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xD-PictureCard™(soldseparately)intothe
camera”(p.11)
“UsingamicroSDcard/microSDHCcard(sold
separately)”(p.12)
Editing
“Erasing the sound recorded to a still
image”
Record over the sound with silence when
playing back the image
[R(Addsoundtostillpicture)](p.29)
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