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Contents
Before Use
Information for Your Safety .......................2
Quick Guide ..............................................8
Standard Accessories .............................10
Names of the Components .....................11
How to Use the Touch Panel ..................13
• What can be done
by touch operation ............................14
Preparation
Charging the Battery ...............................15
About the Battery
(charging/
number of recordable pictures) ...............17
Inserting and Removing the Card
(optional)/the Battery...............................19
About the Built-in Memory/the Card ........21
Setting Date/Time (Clock Set).................23
• Changing the clock setting
(In programme AE mode) .................24
Setting the Menu .....................................25
• Setting menu items ...........................26
• Using the quick menu .......................28
About the Setup Menu ............................29
Selecting the [REC] Mode.......................35
Basic
Taking pictures using
the automatic function
(Intelligent Auto Mode) ............................37
• Scene detection ................................39
• The Backlight Compensation ............39
• About the flash ..................................40
• Settings in Intelligent auto mode .......40
Taking pictures
with your favourite settings
(Programme AE mode) ...........................41
• Focusing ...........................................42
• When the subject is not in focus
(such as when it is not
in the centre of the composition
of the picture you want to take).........42
• Preventing jitter (camera shake) .......43
Taking Pictures with the Zoom ................44
• Using the Optical Zoom/
Using the Extra Optical Zoom (EZ)/
Using the Digital Zoom......................44
Playing back Pictures
([NORMAL PLAY]) ..................................46
• Using the Touch Zoom ......................47
• Switching the [PLAYBACK] mode .....48
Deleting Pictures .....................................49
• To delete a single picture ..................49
• To delete multiple pictures
(up to 50) or all the pictures ..............49
Advanced (Recording pictures)
About the LCD Monitor............................51
Taking Pictures
using the Built-in Flash ............................54
• Switching to
the appropriate flash setting..............54
Taking Close-up Pictures ........................59
Taking Pictures with the Self-timer..........60
Taking Pictures with Focus
and Exposure Set on Subject
(Touch AF/AE).........................................61
Taking Pictures with Set Aperture
(Aperture-priority AE) ..............................62
Taking Pictures
with Set Shutter Speed
(Shutter-priority AE).................................63
Taking Pictures
with Exposure Set Manually
(Manual exposure) ..................................64
Aperture Value and Shutter Speed .........66
Compensating the Exposure ...................68
Taking Pictures using Auto Bracket ........69
Taking pictures
that match the scene being recorded
(Scene mode)..........................................70
• [PORTRAIT] ......................................71
• [SOFT SKIN] .....................................71
• [SELF PORTRAIT] ............................72
• [SCENERY] .......................................72
• [SPORTS] .........................................72
• [NIGHT PORTRAIT] ..........................73
• [NIGHT SCENERY]...........................73
• [FOOD] ..............................................73
• [PARTY] ............................................74
• [CANDLE LIGHT] ..............................74
• [BABY1]/[BABY2] ..............................75
• [PET] .................................................76
• [SUNSET]..........................................76
• [HIGH SENS.] ...................................76
• [HI-SPEED BURST] ..........................77
