Ricoh GX100 Digital Camera User Manual


 
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If you are using the camera for the first time, read this section.
Returning to Normal Shooting Mode
1
Turn the mode dial to 5.
Using the Skew Correction Mode
1
Turn the mode dial to SCENE.
The camera is ready to shoot and the selected scene mode is
displayed at the top of the LCD monitor.
2
Press the MODE button.
The scene mode selection screen appears.
3
Press the
!"
buttons to select [SKEW COR MODE].
4
Press the MENU/OK button.
5
Press the shutter release button to shoot the picture.
The display indicates that the image is being processed, and
then the area recognized as the correction range is displayed
with an orange frame. Up to five areas can be recognized.
If the target area cannot be detected, an error message appears.
The image before correction remains recorded.
To select another correction area, move the orange frame to the
target area by pressing the $ button.
To cancel skew correction, press the ! button. Even if you
cancel skew correction, the image before skew correction
remains recorded.
6
Press the MENU/OK button.
The display indicates that the image is being corrected, and then
the corrected image is recorded. The image before correction is
also recorded.
Caution-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
When [SKEW COR MODE] is selected, note the following:
To shoot the subject as large as possible, position it so that the entire portion of the
subject is visible on the LCD monitor.
The camera may fail to recognize the subject in the following cases:
When the image is out of focus
When four edges of the subject are not clearly visible
When it is hard to distinguish between the subject and background
When the background is complicated
Two images, one before correction and the other after correction, are recorded. If the
number of remaining shots is less than two, you cannot shoot the subject.
When [SKEW COR MODE] is selected, the digital zoom is activated even when
[AUTO RSZ] is set to [DIGITAL ZOOM IMG] on the SETUP menu.