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
92
Set the ISO speed (image sensor’s sensitivity to light) to suit the
ambient light level. In Basic Zone modes, the ISO speed is set
automatically (p.94).
1
Press the <Wi> button.
[ISO speed] will appear.
2
Set the ISO speed.
Press the <Y> <Z> keys or turn the
<6> dial to select the desired ISO
speed, then press <0>.
With [AUTO] selected, the ISO speed
will be set automatically (p.93).
ISO Speed Guide
* High ISO speeds will result in grainier images.
i
: Changing the ISO Speed to Suit the Light Level
N
ISO Speed
Shooting Situation
(No flash)
Flash Range
ISO 100 - ISO 400 Sunny outdoors
The higher the ISO
speed, the farther the
flash range will extend
(p.105).
ISO 400 - ISO 1600 Overcast skies or evening time
ISO 1600 - ISO 6400, H Dark indoors or night
Under [53: Custom Functions (C.Fn)], if [2: ISO expansion] is set to
[1: On], “H” (equivalent to ISO 12800) can also be selected (p.260).
Under [53: Custom Functions (C.Fn)], if [10: Flash button function]
is set to [1: ISO speed], you can set the ISO speed with the <D> button.
Under [53: Custom Functions (C.Fn)], if [6: Highlight tone priority] is
set to [1: Enable], ISO 100 and “H” (equivalent to ISO 12800) cannot be
selected (p.263).
Shooting in high temperatures may result in images that look grainier.
Long exposures can also cause irregular colors in the image.