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Operating the camera 19
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Operating the camera
The procedure below is a general guideline for basic operation. It is particularly
useful if you are new to the camera.
1. Press the
Power
button to turn the power on.
Be sure that you have removed the lens cover before turning on the camera.
2. Set the mode dial to or other desired shooting mode.
3. If you need to use the flash for shooting, open the flash.
4. Use the
Zoom
lever to zoom-in/zoom-out on the subject.
5. Press the shutter halfway to set automatic focus.
• Once the focus is set, the focus frame color will turn to yellow (focused). If
the focus frame color is red and you press the shutter down, it might result
in a blurred photo.
6. Press the shutter down fully to capture the image.
7. To switch to
Movie
mode, press . The video recording automatically
starts.
• While recording, use the
Zoom
lever to zoom-in/zoom-out on the subject.
Press again to stop video recording.
8. To switch to
Playback
mode, press
. In
Playback
mode, you can view
captured images or recorded videos.
• You can press
or to view other images/videos, slide the
Zoom
lever
to
to zoom-in on a captured image, or slide the
Zoom
lever to
to view 9-thumbnail images on the screen.
• During zoom-in/out, there is a separator in the zoom bar between
and
.
For best image quality, it is recommended to use optical zoom only by keeping the
magnification within
and the separator.
• Flash is automatically turned off in the Movie mode.
• In Movie mode, the camera records both sound and video. The recording time is
continuous, but recording will stop once the memory card space is full.
• At any time, you can press the Power button to turn off the camera.
Optical Zoom
Digital Zoom