Interchangeable Lens Digital Camera Instruction Manual
Table Of Contents
- Notes on using your camera
- Table of Contents
- Preparing the camera
- Before your operation
- Shooting images
- Using the shooting function
- Selecting the focus method
- Detecting faces
- Using the flash
- Adjusting the brightness of the image (Exposure, Flash compensation, Metering)
- Shooting with fixed brightness (AE Lock)
- Using brightness compensation for the entire image (Exposure compensation)
- Adjusting the amount of flash light (Flash Compensation)
- Selecting the flash control mode to set the amount of flash light (Flash control)
- Selecting the method for measuring the brightness of a subject (Metering Mode)
- Setting ISO
- Compensating for the brightness and contrast automatically (D-Range)
- Image processing
- Adjusting the color tones (White balance)
- Selecting the drive mode
- Using the viewing function
- Changing your setup
- GPS setting (SLT-A55V only)
- Setting image size and image quality
- Setting the method for recording on a memory card
- Changing the noise reduction setting
- Changing the function of the buttons
- Changing other settings
- Setting the LCD monitor/electronic viewfinder
- Confirming the version of the camera
- Resetting to the default
- Viewing images on a computer
- Printing images
- Others
- Index
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Changing your setup
Note
• A telephoto image results except when the [VGA] image size is selected for movies
(SLT-A33 only).
MENU button t 1 t [Image: Aspect Ratio] t Select the
desired ratio
Note
• This item cannot be set when the exposure mode is set to Sweep Panorama.
MENU button t 1 t [Image: Quality] t Select the desired
setting
Image: Aspect Ratio
3:2 A normal ratio.
16:9 An HDTV ratio.
Image: Quality
(RAW) File format: RAW (Records using the RAW compression
format.)
This format does not perform any digital processing on the
images. Select this format to process images on a computer
for professional purposes.
• The image size is fixed to the maximum size. The image
size is not displayed on the screen.
(RAW &
JPEG)
File format: RAW (Records using the RAW compression
format.) + JPEG
A RAW image and a JPEG image are created at the same
time. This is suitable when you need two image files, a JPEG
for viewing, and a RAW for editing.
• The image quality is fixed to [Fine] and the image size is
fixed to [L].
(Fine) File format: JPEG
The image is compressed in the JPEG format when recorded.
Since the compression rate of (Standard) is higher than
that of (Fine), the file size of is smaller than that
of . This will allow more files to be recorded on one
memory card, but the image quality will be lower.
(Standard)