Operating Manual
Table Of Contents
- Using Your Camera Safely
- Care to be Taken During Handling
- Contents
- Composition of the Operating Manual
- Camera Features
- 1 Getting Started
- 2 Common Operations
- 3 Taking Pictures
- Taking Still Pictures
- Taking Pictures
- Setting the Shooting Mode
- Using the Face Detection Function
- Taking Pictures Automatically (Auto Picture Mode)
- Taking Pictures in the Custom Settings (Program Mode)
- Taking Pictures in the Basic Mode (Green Mode)
- Using the Zoom
- Taking Pictures of Dark Scenes (Night Scene Portrait/Night Scene/Digital SR/Fireworks/ Candlelight Mode)
- Taking Pictures of People (Portrait/Natural Skin Tone Mode)
- Taking Pictures of Children (Kids Mode)
- Taking Pictures of Your Pet (Pet Mode)
- Taking Pictures of Sports and Leisure Activities (Sport/Surf & Snow Mode)
- Taking Pictures Indoors (Party Mode)
- Taking Pictures of Text (Text Mode)
- Framing Your Pictures (Frame Composite Mode)
- Using the Self-timer
- Taking a Series of Pictures (Continuous Shooting/Burst Shooting Mode)
- Taking Pictures Using the Remote Control Unit (Optional)
- Using the Digital Wide Function (Digital Wide Mode)
- Taking Panoramic Pictures (Digital Panorama Mode)
- Setting the Shooting Functions
- Selecting the Flash Mode
- Selecting the Focus Mode
- Selecting the Number of Recorded Pixels
- Setting the Exposure (EV Compensation)
- Correcting the Brightness (D-Range Setting)
- Adjusting the White Balance
- Setting the AE Metering
- Setting the Sensitivity
- Setting the AUTO ISO Range
- Setting the Blink Detection Function
- Setting the Shake Reduction Function
- Setting the Instant Review
- Setting the Image Sharpness (Sharpness)
- Setting the Color Saturation (Saturation)
- Setting the Image Contrast (Contrast)
- Setting the Date Imprint Function
- Setting the IQ Enhancer Processing
- Setting the Green Button
- Recording Movies
- Saving the Settings (Memory)
- Taking Still Pictures
- 4 Playing Back and Deleting Images
- 5 Editing and Printing Images
- 6 Recording and Playing Back Sound
- 7 Settings
- Camera Settings
- Formatting the Memory
- Changing the Sound Settings
- Changing the Date and Time
- Setting the World Time
- Setting the Text Size on the Menu
- Changing the Display Language
- Changing the Naming System of the Folder
- Changing the Video Output Format
- Setting Eye-Fi Communication
- Adjusting the Brightness of the Display
- Using the Power Saving Function
- Setting the Auto Power Off Function
- Changing the Start-up Screen
- Correcting Defective Pixels in the CCD Sensor (Pixel Mapping)
- Resetting to Default Settings (Reset)
- Camera Settings
- 8 Connecting to a Computer
- 9 Appendix

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3
Taking Pictures
4
Press the 4 button.
The setting is saved and the [
A
Rec. Mode] menu reappears.
5
Press the 3 button.
The camera returns to capture status.
You can set the area of the screen where the brightness is metered to
determine the exposure.
1
Press the 3 button in A mode.
The [A Rec. Mode] menu appears.
2
Use the four-way controller (
23
) to select [AE Metering].
3
Press the four-way controller (5).
A pull-down menu appears.
4
Use the four-way controller (23)
to select the AE Metering setting.
5
Press the 4 button.
The setting is saved.
6
Press the 3 button.
The camera returns to capture status.
Setting the AE Metering
L
Multi-segment
metering
The camera divides the image into 256 areas, meters the
brightness and determines the exposure.
M
Center-weighted
metering
The camera takes a reading of the overall brightness of the
picture with the center of the image having more influence
on the exposure.
N
Spot AE metering
The camera determines the exposure by metering the
brightness only at the center of the image.
OK
OK
Rec. Mode
MENU
Cancel
1/4
Recorded Pixels
White Balance
AE Metering
Sensitivity
AF Setting
AWB
Auto
AUTO ISO Range 0.0