User Manual
Table Of Contents
- Cover
- Introduction
- Getting Started
- Charging the Battery
- Installing and Removing the Battery and Card
- Turning on the Power
- Setting the Date, Time, and Zone
- Selecting the Interface Language
- Attaching and Detaching a Lens
- Basic Operation
- Quick Control for Shooting Functions
- Menu Operations
- Formatting the Card
- Switching the LCD Monitor Display
- Feature Guide
- Basic Shooting and Image Playback
- Fully Automatic Shooting (Scene Intelligent Auto)
- Full Auto Techniques (Scene Intelligent Auto)
- Disabling Flash
- Creative Auto Shooting
- Shooting Portraits
- Shooting Landscapes
- Shooting Close-ups
- Shooting Moving Subjects
- Shooting Food
- Shooting Night Portraits
- Quick Control
- Shooting with Ambience Selection
- Shooting by Lighting or Scene Type
- Image Playback
- Creative Shooting
- Advanced Shooting
- Conveying the Subject’s Movement
- Changing the Depth of Field
- Manual Exposure
- Changing the Metering Mode
- Setting Exposure Compensation
- Auto Exposure Bracketing
- Locking the Exposure
- Locking the Flash Exposure
- Auto Correction of Brightness and Contrast
- Correcting the Image’s Dark Corners
- Customizing Image Characteristics
- Registering Preferred Image Characteristics
- Matching the Light Source
- Adjusting the Color Tone for the Light Source
- Setting the Color Reproduction Range
- Shooting with the LCD Monitor (Live View Shooting)
- Shooting Movies
- Handy Features
- Image Playback
- Post-Processing Images
- Printing Images
- Customizing the Camera
- Reference
- Software Start Guide / Downloading Images to a Computer
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A Customizing Image CharacteristicsN
Sharpness
Adjusts the sharpness of the subject.
To make it less sharp, set it toward the E end. The closer it is to E,
the softer the image will look.
To make it sharper, set it toward the F end. The closer it is to F, the
sharper the image will look.
Contrast
Adjusts the image contrast and the vividness of colors.
To decrease the contrast, set it toward the minus end. The closer it is
to G, the more muted the image will look.
To increase the contrast, set it toward the plus end. The closer it is to
H, the crisper the image will look.
Saturation
Adjusts the color saturation in the image.
To decrease the color saturation, set it toward the minus end.
The closer it is to G, the more diluted the colors will look.
To increase the color saturation, set it toward the plus end. The
closer it is to H, the bolder the colors will look.
Color tone
Adjusts the color tone of skin.
To make the skin tone redder, set it toward the minus end. The
closer it is to G, the redder the skin tone will look.
To reduce skin redness, set it toward the plus end. The closer it is to
H, the more yellow the skin tone will look.
Parameter Settings and Effects