User's Guide
Table Of Contents
- KODAK EASYSHARE Z981 Digital Camera
- Product features
- Table of contents
- Setting up your camera
- Taking pictures/videos
- Taking pictures in Smart Capture mode
- Taking a video
- Adjusting LCD brightness
- Capture modes
- Using the zoom
- Using the flash
- Using the Drive button
- Using the Focus button
- Taking panoramic pictures
- P, A, S, and M modes
- Using exposure compensation to adjust brightness
- Using the histogram to view picture brightness
- Understanding the picture-taking icons
- Know when your batteries need charging
- Sharing and tagging pictures
- Reviewing and editing
- Reviewing pictures/videos
- Deleting pictures/videos
- Viewing pictures/videos in different ways
- A smarter way to find your pictures
- Understanding the review icons
- Creating a multimedia slide show
- Using the menu button in review
- Selecting multiple pictures/videos
- Cropping pictures
- Copying pictures/videos
- Using KODAK PERFECT TOUCH Technology
- Using the RAW Develop feature
- Editing videos
- Doing more with your camera
- Transferring, printing pictures
- Troubleshooting
- Appendix
- Index

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Taking pictures/videos
Taking burst pictures
1 In most Still modes, press the Drive button until the desired burst icon is displayed
on the LCD.
2 Press the Shutter button halfway to focus and set exposure, then press and
hold it completely down to take the pictures.
The camera stops taking pictures when you release the Shutter button, when the
pictures are taken, or when there is no more storage space.
NOTE: During quickview, you can delete all pictures in the burst series. To delete selectively, do so in
Review (see page 29). Burst is unavailable in Portrait, Night Portrait, Night Landscape, Backlight,
Fireworks, and Panorama modes, and when taking pictures in the RAW format.
Mode Icon Description Example
Burst Camera takes 0.9 picture per
second, up to 3 pictures (at full
resolution at Standard
compression) while the Shutter
button is pressed.
A child blowing out birthday
candles.
High-
speed
Burst
Camera takes 8 pictures per
second, up to 9 pictures, while the
Shutter button is pressed. (Picture
sizes are 3 MP.)
A person swinging a golf club.
Press the Drive button repeatedly to scroll through
self-timer and burst modes.
The current flash mode appears on the LCD or EVF.
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