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
300
Specifications
Noise reduction: Applicable to long exposures and high ISO speed shots
Automatic image
brightness correction:
Auto Lighting Optimizer provided
Highlight tone priority: Provided
Lens peripheral
illumination correction:
Provided
• Viewfinder
Type: Eye-level pentamirror
Field of view coverage: Vertical/Horizontal approx. 95% (with eyepoint approx.
21 mm)
Magnification: Approx. 0.8x (-1 m
-1
with 50mm lens at infinity)
Eyepoint: Approx. 21 mm (from eyepiece lens center at -1 m
-1
)
Dioptric adjustment
range:
Approx. -2.5 - +0.5 m
-1
(dpt)
Focusing screen: Fixed, Precision Matte
Mirror: Quick-return type
Depth-of-field preview: Enabled with Custom Function setting
• Autofocus (for viewfinder shooting)
Type: TTL secondary image-registration, phase-difference
detection with the dedicated AF sensor
AF points: 9-point (All AF points support f/5.6. Cross-type AF with
center AF point.)
Focusing brightness
range:
EV 0 - 18 (Center AF point)
EV 1 - 18 (Other AF points)
(With One-Shot AF, at room temperature, ISO 100)
AF operation: One-Shot AF, AI Servo AF, AI Focus AF
AF-assist beam: Small series of flashes fired by built-in flash
• Exposure Control
Metering modes: 63-zone TTL open-aperture metering
• Evaluative metering (linked to all AF points)
• Partial metering (approx. 10% of viewfinder at center)
• Center-weighted average metering
Metering brightness
range:
EV 1 - 20 (at room temperature, ISO 100)
Shooting mode: Basic Zone modes:
Scene Intelligent Auto, Flash Off, Creative Auto, Portrait,
Landscape, Close-up, Sports, Food, Night Portrait
Creative Zone modes:
Program AE, Shutter-priority AE, Aperture-priority AE,
Manual exposure