User Manual
Table Of Contents
- Cover
- Introduction
- Getting Started and Basic Camera Operations
- Charging the Battery
- Installing and Removing the Battery
- Installing and Removing the Card
- Using the LCD Monitor
- Turning on the Power
- Setting the Date, Time, and Zone
- Selecting the Interface Language
- Attaching and Detaching a Lens
- Basic Shooting Operations
- Quick Control for Shooting Functions
- Menu Operations and Configurations
- Operating the Camera with Touch Screen
- Formatting the Card
- Before You Start
- Displaying the Grid in the Viewfinder
- Displaying the Electronic Level
- Setting the Viewfinder Information Display
- Button Functions
- Setting the Multi Function Lock
- Setting the Shooting Mode Guide
- Setting the Feature Guide
- Help
- Basic Shooting
- Fully Automatic Shooting (Scene Intelligent Auto)
- Full Auto Techniques (Scene Intelligent Auto)
- Creative Auto Shooting
- Special Scene Mode
- Shooting Portraits
- Shooting Group Photos
- Shooting Landscapes
- Shooting Moving Subjects
- Photographing Children
- Panning
- Shooting Close-ups
- Shooting Food
- Shooting Candlelight Portraits
- Shooting Night Portraits (With a Tripod)
- Shooting Night Scenes (Handheld)
- Shooting Backlit Scenes
- Quick Control
- Setting the AF and Drive Modes
- Image Settings
- Setting the Image-Recording Quality
- Setting the Aspect Ratio
- Setting the ISO Speed for Still Photos
- Selecting a Picture Style
- Customizing a Picture Style
- Registering a Picture Style
- Setting the White Balance
- White Balance Correction
- Auto Correction of Brightness and Contrast
- Setting Noise Reduction
- Highlight Tone Priority
- Correction of Lens Aberrations due to Optical Characteristics
- Reducing Flicker
- Setting the Color Space
- Creating and Selecting a Folder
- File Numbering Methods
- Setting Copyright Information
- GPS Settings
- Advanced Operations for Photographic Effects
- Program AE
- Shutter-Priority AE
- Aperture-Priority AE
- Manual Exposure
- Selecting the Metering Mode
- Setting the Desired Exposure Compensation
- Auto Exposure Bracketing (AEB)
- Locking the Exposure for Shooting (AE Lock)
- Long (Bulb) Exposures
- HDR (High Dynamic Range) Shooting
- Multiple Exposures
- Mirror Lockup
- Interval Timer Shooting
- Using the Eyepiece Cover
- Remote Control Shooting
- Using a Remote Switch
- Flash Photography
- Shooting with the LCD Monitor (Live View Shooting)
- Shooting Movies
- Image Playback
- Image Playback
- Shooting Information Display
- Index display (Multiple-image Display)
- Jump Display (Jumping Through Images)
- Filtering Images for Playback
- Magnifying Images
- Playing Back with the Touch Screen
- Rotating the Image
- Protecting Images
- Setting Ratings
- Quick Control for Playback
- Enjoying Movies
- Playing Back Movies
- Editing a Movie’s First and Last Scenes
- Slide Show (Auto Playback)
- Viewing Images on a TV Set
- Erasing Images
- Adjusting the LCD Monitor Brightness
- Setting the Auto Rotation of Vertical Images
- Post-Processing Images
- Sensor Cleaning
- Print order and Photobook Set-up
- Customizing the Camera
- Reference
- Software Start Guide / Downloading Images to a Computer
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Basic Shooting Operations
The shutter button has two steps. You can press the shutter button
halfway. Then you can further press the shutter button completely.
Pressing Halfway
This activates autofocusing and the
automatic exposure system that sets the
shutter speed and aperture.
The exposure setting (shutter speed and
aperture) is displayed in the viewfinder
and on the LCD panel for approx. 4 sec.
(metering timer/0).
Pressing Completely
This releases the shutter and takes the
picture.
Preventing Camera Shake
Hand-held camera movement during the moment of exposure is
called camera shake. It can cause blurred pictures. To prevent
camera shake, note the following:
• Hold and steady the camera as shown on the preceding page.
• Press the shutter button halfway to autofocus, then slowly press
the shutter button completely.
Shutter Button
In Creative Zone modes, pressing the <p> button is the same as
pressing the shutter button halfway.
If you press the shutter button completely without pressing it halfway
first, or if you press the shutter button halfway and then press it
completely immediately, the camera will take a moment before it takes
the picture.
Even during menu display or image playback, you can go back to
shooting-ready state by pressing the shutter button halfway.