Contents
Before Use
Information for Your Safety ....................... 2
Quick Guide .............................................. 8
Standard Accessories ............................... 9
Names of the Components ..................... 10
Preparation
Charging the Battery ............................... 12
About the Battery (charging/number of
recordable pictures) ................................ 13
Inserting and Removing the Card
(optional)/the Battery .............................. 14
About the Built-in Memory/the Card ........ 15
Setting Date/Time (Clock Set) ................ 16
• Changing the clock setting
(In normal picture mode) .................. 17
Setting the Menu ..................................... 18
• Setting menu items ........................... 19
• Using the quick menu ....................... 21
About the Setup Menu ............................ 21
Selecting the [REC] Mode ...................... 26
Basic
Taking pictures using the automatic
function (r_: Intelligent Auto Mode) ........ 27
• Scene detection ................................ 28
• The Backlight Compensation ............ 28
• About the flash .................................. 29
• Settings in intelligent auto mode ....... 29
Taking pictures with your favorite
settings (1";I:Normal picture mode) ......... 30
• Focusing ........................................... 30
• When the subject is not in focus
(such as when it is not in the center
of the composition of the picture
you want to take) .............................. 31
• Preventing jitter (camera shake) ....... 31
Taking Pictures with the Zoom ............... 32
• Using the Optical Zoom/Using the
Extended Optical Zoom (EZ)/Using
the Digital Zoom ............................... 32
• Using the Easy zoom ........................ 33
Playing back Pictures
([NORMAL PLAY]) .................................. 34
• Displaying Multiple Screens (Multi
Playback) .......................................... 35
• Using the Playback Zoom ................. 35
• Switching the [PLAYBACK] mode .... 36
Deleting Pictures ..................................... 36
• To delete a single picture .................. 36
• To delete multiple pictures
(up to 50) or all the pictures .............. 37
Advanced (Recording pictures)
About the LCD Monitor ........................... 38
Taking Pictures using the
Built-in Flash ........................................... 39
• Switching to the appropriate flash
setting ............................................... 39
Taking Close-up Pictures ........................ 43
Taking Pictures with the Self-timer ......... 44
Compensating the Exposure .................. 45
Taking Pictures using Auto Bracket ........ 46
Taking pictures that match the scene
being recorded (_1_: Scene mode) ....... 47
• [] [PORTRAIT] ............................... 47
• [] [SOFT SKIN] .............................. 48
• [] [SELF PORTRAIT] ..................... 48
• [] [SCENERY] ................................ 49
• [] [SPORTS] .................................. 49
• _ [NIGHT PORTRAIT] ................... 49
• [] [NIGHT SCENERY] ................... 49
• [] [FOOD] ...................................... 50
• [] [PARTY] ..................................... 50
• [] [CANDLE LIGHT] ....................... 50
• [] [BABY1]/[] [BABY2] ................ 50
• _ [PET] .......................................... 51
•_ [SUNSET] .................................. 51
• _'{_ [HIGH SENS.] ............................ 52
• D [HI-SPEED BURST] ................... 52
• [] [STARRY SKY] .......................... 53
• [] [FIREWORKS] ........................... 53
• [] [BEACH] ..................................... 54
• _ [SNOW] ...................................... 54
• [] [AERIAL PHOTO] ...................... 54
• [] [UNDERWATER] ....................... 54
Motion Picture Mode ............................... 55
Useful Functions at Travel
Destinations ............................................ 57
• Recording which Day of the
Vacation You Take the Picture ......... 57
• Recording Dates/Times at Overseas
Travel Destinations (World Time)..._ 58
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