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
Histogram display
During shooting and playback of still pictures, you can display a histogram
showing the brightness and contrast of your subject in the viewfinder or
monitor.
Checking the histogram enables precise exposure control when taking
pictures.
During playback, you can display a histogram showing the brightness and
contrast of recorded pictures.
The histogram display can be set separately for shooting mode and playback
mode.
Ex: When a histogram is displayed in P mode
When the image is bright When the image is dark
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HQ
The part indicated in
green in the histogram
shows the luminance
distribution within the AF
target mark.
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If the peak fills
too much of the
right frame, the
image will appear
mostly white.
If the peak fills
too much of the
left frame, the
image will appear
mostly black.