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You’ve read the chapter on getting ready and the camera is now set up and ready to take pictures.
“Using the Camera” describes the basic camera operations of “Taking Pictures”, then “Viewing Images”
and “Erasing Images”.
This section describes the camera’s functions.
Still photography
Movie photography
0 Photography mode selector
0 Continuous shooting button
0 C-AF button
Auto mode
Scene Position
Portrait
Scene
Sport
Night
Manual mode
Aperture-priority Auto
Shutter -priority Auto
Program Auto
Movie
If you hold down “ ” button and press the
“dc” button, the camera switches to continuous
shooting mode.
You can select the shooting mode by turning the mode dial.
While “ ” button is held down, the camera
continuously focuses on the main subject inside
the AF frame. Use this button when you are
shooting pictures of a moving subject.
0 Photo mode ( ) button
Photography: Allows you to select the resolution (Number of
recorded pixels), sensitivity and FinePixColor settings.
Playback: Allows you to specify the print order (DPOF) settings.
0 EV button
Hold down “ ” button and press the dc button to set the
EV (exposure compensation) value.
0 Photometry/Focus mode button
The function of this button changes according to the photography
mode.
: The focus mode (AUTO or AF(CENTER)) switches
each time the “ ” button is pressed.
P, S, A, M: The Photometry mode changes each time the
“ ” button is pressed.
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Using
the Camera
0 Zoom button
0 DISP button
0 BACK button
0 dc button
0 Using the Menus
Photography: Press T to zoom in (telephoto-angle).
Press W to zoom out (wide-angle).
Playback: Press T to enlarge the image.
Press W to revert to normal display.
Press this button to stop a procedure midway through.
You can use this button to select the LCD monitor display.
Photography: Switches the LCD monitor on and off or displays the framing guides.
Playback: Switches text display on and off or selects multi-frame playback.
1Display the menu.
Press the “MENU/OK” button.
4Confirm the setting.
Press the “MENU/OK” button.
2Select a menu option.
Press the left or right arrow on the
4-direction button.
Photography: d button Switches Macro ( ) on and off.
c button Sets the flash ( ).
Playback: Change frame or (in a movie) frame advance.
Instructions for the next step in the procedure are
displayed at the bottom of the screen. Press the
button indicated.
For example, to crop the image as shown in the
figure at right, press the “MENU/OK” button.
In the Owner's Manual the up, down, left and right directions on the 4-direction button are indicated
by black triangles. Up or down is shown as “ab”, and left or right is shown as “dc”.
◆ Displaying the On-screen Help ◆
3Select a setting.
Press the up or down arrow on the
4-direction button.
BASIC OPERATION GUIDE
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Using
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