User manual
Table Of Contents
- Cover
- Introduction
- Getting Started and Basic Camera Operations
- Charging the Battery
- Installing and Removing the Battery
- Installing and Removing the Card
- Using the LCD Monitor
- Turning on the Power
- Setting the Date, Time, and Zone
- Selecting the Interface Language
- Attaching and Detaching a Lens
- Basic Shooting Operations
- Setting the Screen Display Level
- Quick Control for Shooting Functions
- Menu Operations and Configurations
- Operating the Camera with Touch Screen
- Formatting the Card
- Switching the LCD Monitor Display
- Displaying the Electronic Level
- Displaying the Grid
- Displaying the Flicker Detection
- Basic Shooting and Image Playback
- Fully Automatic Shooting (Scene Intelligent Auto)
- Full Auto Techniques (Scene Intelligent Auto)
- Shooting When You Cannot Use Flash
- Creative Auto Shooting
- Shooting Portraits
- Shooting Landscapes
- Shooting Close-ups
- Shooting Moving Subjects
- Special Scene Mode
- Shooting Group Photos
- Photographing Children
- Shooting Food
- Shooting Candlelight Portraits
- Shooting Night Portraits (With a Tripod)
- Shooting Night Scenes (Handheld)
- Shooting Backlit Scenes
- Shooting with Creative Filter Effects
- Quick Control
- Adjusting the Brightness
- Image Playback
- Setting the AF and Drive Modes
- Image Settings
- Setting the Image-Recording Quality
- Changing the Image’s Aspect Ratio
- Setting the ISO Speed for Still Photos
- Selecting a Picture Style
- Customizing a Picture Style
- Registering a Picture Style
- Matching the Light Source
- Adjusting the Color Tone for the Light Source
- Auto Correction of Brightness and Contrast
- Setting Noise Reduction
- Correction of Lens Aberrations due to Optical Characteristics
- Reducing Flicker
- Setting the Color Reproduction Range
- Advanced Operations for Photographic Effects
- Flash Photography
- Shooting with the LCD Monitor (Live View Shooting)
- Shooting Movies
- Handy Features
- Image Playback
- Searching for Images Quickly
- Magnifying Images
- Playing Back with the Touch Screen
- Rotating the Image
- Setting Ratings
- Setting Image Search Conditions
- Quick Control for Playback
- Enjoying Movies
- Playing Back Movies
- Editing a Movie’s First and Last Scenes
- Slide Show (Auto Playback)
- Viewing Images on a TV Set
- Protecting Images
- Erasing Images
- Digital Print Order Format (DPOF)
- Specifying Images for a Photobook
- Shooting Information Display
- Post-Processing Images
- Customizing the Camera
- Reference
- Software Start Guide / Downloading Images to a Computer
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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 aberration
correction:
Peripheral illumination correction, Chromatic aberration
correction, Distortion correction, Diffraction correction
• Viewfinder
Type: Eye-level pentamirror
Field of view coverage: Vertical/Horizontal approx. 95% (with Eye point approx.
19 mm and aspect ratio set to 3:2)
Magnification: Approx. 0.82x (-1 m
-1
with 50mm lens at infinity)
Eyepoint: Approx. 19 mm (from eyepiece lens center at -1 m
-1
)
Dioptric adjustment
range:
Approx. -3.0 - +1.0 m
-1
(dpt)
Focusing screen: Fixed, Precision Matte
Grid display: Provided
Electronic level display: Provided
Mirror: Quick-return type
Depth-of-field preview: Provided
• Autofocus (for viewfinder shooting)
Type: TTL secondary image-registration, phase-difference
detection with the dedicated AF sensor
AF points: Max. 45 points (Cross-type AF point: Max. 45 points)
* Number of available AF points, Dual cross-type AF
points, and cross-type AF points vary depending on the
lens used and aspect ratio settings.
* Dual cross-type focusing at f/2.8 with center AF point.
(AF group: When Group A lenses are used)
Focusing brightness
range:
EV -3 - 18 (with the center AF point supporting f/2.8,
One-Shot AF, at room temperature, ISO 100)
Focus operation: One-Shot AF, AI Servo AF, AI Focus AF,
Manual focusing (MF)
AF area selection mode:Single-point AF (Manual selection), Zone AF (Manual
selection of zone), Large Zone AF (manual selection of
zone), Automatic selection AF
AF point automatic
selection conditions:
Automatic AF point selection possible based on color
information equivalent to skin tones.
AF-assist beam: Small series of flashes fired by built-in flash