Contents
Information for Your Safety 2
Before Use
Standard Accessories 9
Names of the Components
11
Removing the Hot Shoe Cover
14
Operating the Rear Dial 14
About the Lens 15
Preparation
Attaching/Detaching the Lens 17
Attaching the Lens Hood 19
Attaching the Shoulder Strap 20
Charging the Battery
21
• Approximate operating time and
number
of
recordable pictures 22
Inserting and Removing the Card
(optional)/the Battery 24
About the Card 25
Setting Date/Time (Clock Set) 26
• Changing the clock setting 26
Setting the Menu 27
• Setting menu items 28
Setting the Quick Menu 30
About the Setup Menu
31
Holding and using your camera 37
Basic
Selecting the [REC] mode, and record
still pictures or motion pictures 38
• Setting [AFS] or [AFC] 39
• Taking a still picture 39
• Recording a motion picture 40
• Playback the recorded still pictures
or motion picture 40
Taking pictures using the automatic
function
(I
ntelligent Auto Mode)
41
• Scene detection 42
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• rac
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43
• Settings
in
Intelligent auto mode 43
Taking pictures with your favorite
settings (Program AE mode) 45
• Fix the focus by pressing the shutter
button halfway (AFS) 46
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• Continuously focusing on a subject
(AFC) 46
• Take a picture with Manual Focus
(MF) 46
• Focusing 47
• When the subject
is
not
in
focus 47
• Preventing jitter (camera shake) 47
• Program Shift.. 48
Taking Pictures with the Zoom 49
• Using the Optical Zoom/Using the
Extended Optical Zoom (EZ)/
U'
th
D' 't I Z
sing e
Igi
a oom 49
Playing back Pictures 50
• Changing the Information Displayed
on the playback screen
51
• Displaying Multiple Screens
(Multi Playback)
51
• Displaying Pictures by Recording
Date (Calendar Playback) 52
• Using the Playback Zoom 52
D I l' P' t
e e Ing
IC
ures 53
• To delete a single picture 53
• To delete multiple pictures
(up to 50) or all the pictures 54
Advanced (Recording pictures)
Switching the display of the LCD Monitor/
Optional External Viewfinder 55
• Switching the displayed information 55
Taking Pictures using the Built-in
Flash
59
• Switching to the appropriate flash
setting 59
• Adjust the flash output. 63
• Setting to the 2nd Curtain Synchro 64
Compensating the Exposure 65
Taking Pictures using Burst Mode 66
Taking Pictures using Auto Bracket.. 68
Taking Pictures with the Self-timer 70
Setting the method used to focus
(AF mode)
71
• Setting up
[r~:~]
(AF Tracking)
72
• Setting the AF area 73
Taking Pictures with Manual Focus 74
Fixing the Focus and the Exposure
(AF/AE Lock) 75
Adjusting the White Balance 77
• Setting the white balance
manually 78
• Setting the color temperature 78