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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Basic Operation
The shutter button has two steps. You can press the shutter button
halfway. Then you can further press the shutter button completely.
Pressing Halfway
This activates autofocusing and the
automatic exposure system that sets the
shutter speed and aperture.
The exposure setting (shutter speed and
aperture) is displayed in the viewfinder
(0).
While you press the shutter button
halfway, the LCD monitor will turn off
(p.197).
Pressing Completely
This releases the shutter and takes the
picture.
Preventing Camera Shake
Hand-held camera movement during the moment of exposure is called
camera shake. It can cause blurred pictures. To prevent camera shake,
note the following:
• Hold and steady the camera as shown on the preceding page.
• Press the shutter button halfway to autofocus, then slowly press the
shutter button completely.
Shutter Button
If you press the shutter button completely without pressing it halfway
first, or if you press the shutter button halfway and then press it
completely immediately, the camera will take a moment before it takes
the picture.
Even during menu display, image playback, or image recording, you can
instantly go back to shooting-ready by pressing the shutter button
halfway.