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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Troubleshooting
Picture is too dark ■ Reposition the camera for more available light.
■ Use Fill flash (see page 14) or change your position so light is not
behind the subject.
■ Move so that the distance between you and the subject is within the
effective flash range. (See Camera Specifications, starting on
page 57.)
■ To automatically set exposure and focus, press the Shutter button
halfway. When the framing marks turn green, press the Shutter
button completely down to take the picture.
■ In Program mode, adjust the Exposure Compensation (see page 21).
Picture is too light ■ Reposition the camera to reduce the amount of available light.
■ Turn the flash off (see page 14).
■ Move so that the distance between you and the subject is within the
effective flash range. (See Camera Specifications, starting on
page 57.)
■ To automatically set exposure and focus, press the Shutter button
halfway. When the framing marks turn green, press the Shutter
button completely down to take the picture.
■ In Program mode, adjust the Exposure Compensation (see page 21).
Pictures that have
KODAK PERFECT
TOUCH Technology
applied (twice) are
of lower image
quality.
■ If PERFECT TOUCH Technology has been applied to a picture on the
camera, do not apply it again when the picture is on the computer
(or on a KODAK Picture Kiosk).
NOTE: PERFECT TOUCH Technology is automatically applied to Pictures
taken in Smart Capture mode.
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