User Manual

Contents

Chapter 1

My Camera

Getting started ............................................................................................ 30

Unpacking.................................................................................................................... 30

Camera layout .............................................................................................. 31

Using the DIRECT LINK button ................................................................................ 33

Inserting the battery and memory card ................................................. 34

Removing the battery and memory card ........................................................... 34

Using the memory card adapter ............................................................................. 34

Charging the battery and turning on your camera .............................. 35

Charging the battery................................................................................................ 35

Turning on your camera ......................................................................................... 35

Performing the initial setup ...................................................................... 36

Selecting functions (options) ................................................................... 37

Selecting with buttons ............................................................................................ 37

Selecting by touch .................................................................................................... 37

Using m .............................................................................................................. 38

E.g. Selecting the photo size in P mode ............................................................. 38

Using the Smart panel ............................................................................................. 39

E.g. Adjust the exposure value in P mode ......................................................... 39

Tips

Concepts in Photography

Shooting postures....................................................................................... 13

Holding the camera ..................................................................................................... 13

Standing photography ............................................................................................... 14

Crouching photography ............................................................................................ 14

Using the display .......................................................................................................... 15

Low-angle shot .............................................................................................................. 16

High-angle shot ............................................................................................................. 16

Aperture ........................................................................................................ 17

Aperture value and the depth of eld .................................................................. 18

Shutter speed ............................................................................................... 19

ISO sensitivity .............................................................................................. 20

How the aperture setting, shutter speed, and ISO sensitivity

control exposure ......................................................................................... 21

Correlation between focal length, angle, and perspective ................ 22

Depth of eld ............................................................................................... 23

What controls out-of-focus eects? ....................................................................... 23

Optical preview ............................................................................................................. 25

Composition ................................................................................................. 25

Rule of Thirds .................................................................................................................. 25

Photos with two subjects .......................................................................................... 26

Flash ............................................................................................................... 27

Flash guide number ..................................................................................................... 27

Bounce Photography .................................................................................................. 28