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Contents
Before Use
Information for Your Safety .......................2
Quick Guide ..............................................8
Standard Accessories .............................10
Names of the Components .....................11
Preparation
Charging the Battery ...............................13
About the Battery (charging/number of
recordable pictures) ................................15
Inserting and Removing the Card
(optional)/the Battery...............................17
About the Built-in Memory/the Card ........19
Setting Date/Time (Clock Set).................21
• Changing the clock setting................22
Setting the Menu.....................................23
• Setting menu items ...........................24
• Using the quick menu .......................26
About the Setup Menu ............................27
Selecting the [REC] Mode.......................33
Basic
Taking pictures using the automatic
function (Intelligent Auto Mode) ..............35
• Scene detection ................................37
• AF Tracking Function........................37
• About the flash ..................................38
• Settings in Intelligent auto mode.......38
Taking pictures with your favourite
settings (Program AE mode)...................39
• Focusing ...........................................40
• 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) ..............................40
• Preventing jitter (camera shake) .......41
• Direction detection function...............41
Taking Pictures with the Zoom................42
• Using the Optical Zoom/
Using the Extra Optical Zoom (EZ)/
Using the Digital Zoom .....................42
• Using the Easy zoom ........................44
Playing back Pictures
([NORMAL PLAY]) ..................................45
• Displaying Multiple Screens
(Multi Playback) ................................46
• Using the Playback Zoom .................47
• Switching the [PLAYBACK] mode .....47
Deleting Pictures .....................................48
• To delete a single picture ..................48
• To delete multiple pictures
(up to 50) or all the pictures ..............48
Advanced (Recording pictures)
About the LCD Monitor............................50
Taking Pictures using
the Built-in Flash......................................52
• Switching to the appropriate
flash setting.......................................52
• Adjust the flash output.......................55
Taking Close-up Pictures ........................57
Taking Pictures with the Self-timer..........58
Compensating the Exposure ...................59
Taking Pictures using Auto Bracket/
Colour Bracket.........................................60
• Auto Bracket......................................60
• Colour Bracket ..................................61
Taking Pictures with Exposure
Set Manually (Manual exposure).............62
Taking pictures that match
the scene being recorded
(Scene mode)..........................................64
• [PORTRAIT] ......................................65
• [SOFT SKIN] .....................................65
• [TRANSFORM] .................................66
• [SELF PORTRAIT] ............................67
• [SCENERY].......................................67
• [SPORTS] .........................................67
• [NIGHT PORTRAIT]..........................68
• [NIGHT SCENERY]...........................68
• [FOOD]..............................................68
• [PARTY] ............................................69
• [CANDLE LIGHT] ..............................69
• [BABY1]/[BABY2] ..............................70
• [PET] .................................................71
• [SUNSET]..........................................71
• [HIGH SENS.] ...................................71
• [HI-SPEED BURST] ..........................72
• [FLASH BURST] ...............................73
• [STARRY SKY] .................................74
• [FIREWORKS] ..................................74
• [BEACH]............................................75
• [SNOW] .............................................75
• [AERIAL PHOTO]..............................75
• [PIN HOLE] .......................................76
• [FILM GRAIN]....................................76