Contents
Before Use
Information for Your Safety 2
Quick Guide 8
Standard Accessories 9
Names of the Components 10
Preparation
Charging the Battery 12
About the Battery (charging/number of
recordable pictures) 13
Inserting and Removing the Card
(optional)/the Battery 14
About the Built-in Memory/the Card 15
Setting DatefTime (Clock Set) 16
• Changing the clock setting
(In normal picture mode) 17
Setting the Menu 18
• Setting menu items 19
• Using the quick menu
21
About the Setup Menu
21
Selecting the [REC] Mode 26
Basic
Taking pictures using the automatic
function
(~:
Intelligent Auto Mode) 27
• Scene detection 28
• The Backlight Compensation 28
- About the flash 29
• Settings in intelligent auto mode 29
Taking pictures with your favorite
settings
(C':1:
Normal picture mode) 30
• Focusing 30
- When the subject is not
in
focus
(such as when it
is
not
in
the center
of the composition of the picture
you want to take)
31
- Preventing jitter (camera shake)
31
Taking Pictures with the Zoom 32
• Using the Optical Zoom/Using the
Extended Optical Zoom (EZ)/Using
the Digital Zoom 32
• Using the Easy zoom 33
Playing back Pictures
([NORMAL PLAY)) 34
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• Displaying Multiple Screens (Multi
Playback) 35
• Using the Playback Zoom 35
• SWitching the [PLAYBACK] mode 36
Deleting Pictures 36
• To delete a single picture 36
- To delete multiple pictures
(up to 50) or all the pictures 37
Advanced (Recording pictures)
About the LCD Monitor 38
Taking Pictures using the
Built-in Flash 39
• Switching to the appropriate flash
setting 39
Taking Close-up Pictures 43
Taking Pictures with the Self-timer 44
Compensating the Exposure 45
Taking Pictures using Auto Bracket.. 46
Taking pictures that match the scene
being recorded
(III.:
Scene mode) 47
· 0 [PORTRAIT] 47
.I?J
[SOFT SKIN] 48
•
[B]
[SELF PORTRAIT] 48
•
E!
[SCENERy] 49
•
BI
[SPORTS] 49
•
~
[NIGHT PORTRAIT] 49
-III
[NIGHT SCENERY]
49
• [S) [FOOD] 50
-n
[PARTY] 50
·
II
[CANDLE LIGHT] 50
•
~
[BABY1
]/~
[BABY2]
50
-
~
[PET]
51
•
~
[SUNSET]
51
·
'*~
[HIGH SENS.]
52
•
~
[HI-SPEED BURST]
52
•
~
[STARRY SKY]
53
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[FIREWORKS] 53
· g [BEACH]
54
•
(l
[SNOW] 54
•t!J [AERIAL PHOTO] 54
-
[]
[UNDERWATER] 54
Motion Picture Mode
55
Useful Functions at Travel
Destinations 57
• Recording which Day of the
Vacation You Take the Picture 57
- Recording DatesfTimes at Overseas
Travel Destinations (World Time) ..... 58