User Manual
Table Of Contents
- Copyright information
- Health and safety information
- Indications used in this manual
- Contents
- Tips
- Chapter 1
- My Camera
- Getting started
- Camera layout
- Inserting the battery and memory card
- Charging the battery and turning on your camera
- Performing the initial setup
- Selecting functions (options)
- Display icons
- Lenses
- Accessories
- Shooting modes
- My Camera
- Chapter 2
- Chapter 3
- Chapter 4
- Wireless network
- Connecting to a WLAN and configuring network settings
- Saving files to a smart phone automatically
- Sending photos or videos to a smart phone
- Using a smart phone as a remote shutter release
- Using Auto Backup to send photos or videos
- Sending photos or videos via email
- Using photo or video sharing websites
- Using Samsung Link to send files
- Sending photos using Wi-Fi Direct
- Wireless network
- Chapter 5
- Chapter 6
- Chapter 7

My Camera > Lenses
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Lens markings
Find out what the numbers on the lens signify.
SAMSUNG 18-200 mm F3.5-6.3 ED OIS lens (example)
1
2345
No. Description
1
Aperture value
A range of supported aperture values. For example, 1:3.5–6.3 means
the maximum aperture value range from 3.5 to 6.3.
2
Focal length
The distance from the middle of the lens to its focal point (in
millimeters). This gure is expressed in a range: minimum focal length
to maximum focal length of the lens.
Longer focal lengths result in narrower angles of view and the subject
is magnied. Shorter focal lengths result in wider angles of view.
3
ED
ED stands for Extra-low Dispersion. Extra-low dispersion glass is
eective in minimizing chromatic aberration (a distortion that occurs
when a lens fails to focus all colors to the same convergence point).
4
OIS (p. 89)
Optical Image Stabilization. Lenses with this feature can detect
camera shake and eectively cancel out the movement inside the
camera.
5
Ø
The lens diameter. When you attach a lter to the lens, make sure that
the diameters of the lens and the lter are the same.