VQT1Q48
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Contents
Before Use
Information for Your Safety....................... 2
Quick Guide.............................................. 9
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) ................................ 16
Inserting and Removing the Card
(optional)/the Battery .............................. 17
About the Built-in Memory/the Card........ 18
Setting Date/Time (Clock Set) ................ 20
• Changing the clock setting
(In programme AE mode)................. 21
Setting the Menu..................................... 22
• Setting menu items........................... 23
• Using the quick menu ....................... 24
About the Setup Menu............................ 25
Selecting the [REC] Mode ...................... 30
Basic
Taking pictures using the automatic
function
(
ñ: Intelligent Auto Mode) ..................... 31
• Scene detection................................ 32
• The Backlight Compensation............ 32
• About the flash.................................. 33
• Settings in Intelligent auto mode ...... 33
Taking pictures with your favourite
settings (
³: Programme AE mode) ...... 34
• Focusing ........................................... 35
• 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)..................................... 35
• Preventing jitter (camera shake)....... 35
Taking Pictures with the Zoom ............... 36
• Using the Optical Zoom/
Using the Extra Optical Zoom (EZ)/
Using the Digital Zoom ..................... 36
Playing back Pictures
([NORMAL PLAY]).................................. 37
• Using the Touch Zoom ..................... 38
• Switching the [PLAYBACK] mode .... 39
Deleting Pictures..................................... 40
• To delete a single picture.................. 40
• To delete multiple pictures
(up to 50) or all the pictures.............. 40
Advanced (Recording pictures)
About the LCD Monitor ........................... 42
Taking Pictures using the Built-in Flash
..... 44
• Switching to the appropriate flash
setting............................................... 44
Taking Close-up Pictures........................ 47
Taking Pictures with the Self-timer ......... 48
Taking Pictures with Focus and
Exposure Set on Subject
(Touch AF/AE)........................................ 49
Taking Pictures with Set Aperture
(
±: Aperture-priority AE) ....................... 50
Taking Pictures with Set Shutter Speed
(
´: Shutter-priority AE).......................... 51
Taking Pictures with Exposure Set
Manually (
²: Manual exposure) ............ 52
Aperture Value and Shutter Speed ......... 54
Compensating the Exposure .................. 55
Taking Pictures using Auto Bracket........ 56
Taking pictures that match the scene
being recorded (¿: Scene mode) .......... 57
• * [PORTRAIT]................................ 57
• + [SOFT SKIN]............................... 58
• 0 [SELF PORTRAIT]...................... 58
• , [SCENERY] ................................ 58
• - [SPORTS] ................................... 58
• . [NIGHT PORTRAIT] ................... 59
• / [NIGHT SCENERY] .................... 59
• 1 [FOOD] ...................................... 59
• 2 [PARTY]...................................... 59
• 3 [CANDLE LIGHT]........................ 60
• : [BABY1]/; [BABY2].................. 60
• í [PET]........................................... 61
• ï [SUNSET] ................................... 61
• 9 [HIGH SENS.]............................. 61
• ô [HI-SPEED BURST].................... 62
• 5 [STARRY SKY]........................... 62
• 4 [FIREWORKS] ............................ 63
• 6 [BEACH] ..................................... 63
• 8 [SNOW]....................................... 63
• 7 [AERIAL PHOTO] ....................... 63
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