User Manual
Table Of Contents
- CAMERA OPERATION MANUAL
- How to use this manual
- Composition of the manual
- Contents
- Names of parts
- 1 Getting started
- 2 Using the menus
- 3 Shooting basics
- 4 Flash
- 5 Advanced shooting
- A/S/M mode
- Aperture priority shooting
- Shutter priority shooting
- Manual shooting
- Using My Mode
- Focusing applications
- Metering
- AE LOCK - Locking the exposure
- Macro mode shooting
- Super macro mode shooting
- Self-timer shooting
- Remote control shooting
- Sequential shooting
- PANORAMA - Panorama shooting
- 2 IN 1 - Taking two-in-one pictures
- FUNCTION - Adding special effects to pictures
- Recording sound with still pictures
- Recording sound with movies
- Using commercially available external microphones
- 6 Adjusting the image quality and exposure
- 7 Playback
- 8 Useful functions
- ALL RESET - Saving the camera’s settings
- CUSTOM BUTTON
- SHORT CUT
- MY MODE SETUP
- CARD SETUP - Formatting cards
- Information display
- Monitor/viewfinder brightness adjustment
- REC VIEW
- SLEEP - Sleep Timer
- Beep
- SHUTTER SOUND
- VOLUME - Playback volume
- POWER ON/OFF SETUP - Power on/off display/sound setting
- SCREEN SETUP
- FILE NAME
- PIXEL MAPPING
- Measurement units
- VIDEO OUT - Video output selection
- 9 Print setting (DPOF)
- 10 Direct printing (PictBridge)
- 11 Miscellaneous
- DIGITAL CAMERA - PC CONNECTION OPERATION MANUAL

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Adjusting the image quality and exposure
CONTRAST
This function adjusts the contrast of images. For example, you can make
images with marked differences in light and shadow softer, and those with
less differences more vivid.
1 In the top menu, select MODE
MENU Æ PICTURE Æ CONTRAST,
and press d.
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2 Press ac to adjust the contrast
between +5 and -5.
• To increase the contrast (+) :
Press a. The light and dark
areas are defined more clearly,
making the image look crisper.
• To reduce the contrast (–) :
Press c. The light and dark areas
become less defined, giving the image a softer impression. Use
this setting when you want to edit images on a PC.
• When you have finished setting the contrast, press e. Press e again
to exit the menu.
Arrow pad
OK button
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