Datasheet
Table Of Contents
- How to use this manual
- Composition of the manual
- 1 Basic operation
- 2 Tips before you start taking pictures
- 3 Basic shooting functions
- 4 Advanced shooting functions
- Changing the aperture value for shooting pictures
- Changing the shutter speed for shooting pictures
- Changing the aperture value and shutter speed for shooting pictures
- My Mode
- Focusing applications
- Changing the area for measuring the brightness of a subject (ESP/Spot)
- AE lock
- Changing ISO sensitivity (ISO)
- Changing picture brightness
- Adjusting the white balance
- Adjusting a picture for recording (SHARPNESS/ CONTRAST/SATURATION)
- Reducing picture noise (NOISE REDUCTION)
- 5 Additional shooting functions
- 6 Playback
- Playing back still pictures
- Playing back movies
- Playing back albums
- Slideshow
- Adding sound to still pictures
- Editing still pictures (RAW DATA EDIT/Resizing/Trimming/REDEYE FIX/ BLACK & WHITE/SEPIA)
- Creating composite pictures (FRAME/ TITLE/CALENDAR/LAYOUT)
- Adjusting pictures (BRIGHTNESS/ SATURATION)
- Editing movies
- Playing back pictures on a TV
- Protecting pictures
- Copying pictures in the internal memory to the card (BACKUP)
- Erasing pictures
- Formatting the internal memory or card (MEMORY FORMAT/FORMAT)
- 7 Settings
- Resetting the settings to the default (RESET)
- Selecting a display language
- Changing the startup screen and shutdown screen (PW ON SETUP/PW OFF SETUP)
- Viewing pictures immediately (REC VIEW)
- Setting camera sounds (Beep sound/BEEP/SHUTTER SOUND/ VOLUME)
- Resetting file names (FILE NAME)
- Adjusting the image processing function (PIXEL MAPPING)
- Adjusting the monitor brightness
- Setting the date and time
- Setting the date and time in another time zone (DUAL TIME SETUP)
- Setting the measurement unit (m/ft)
- Customizing the camera (MY MODE SETUP/ SHORT CUT/CUSTOM BUTTON)
- 8 Printing pictures
- 9 Connecting the camera to a computer
- 10 Appendix
- 11 Miscellaneous

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Advanced shooting functions
Adjusting a picture for recording (SHARPNESS/
CONTRAST/SATURATION)
These functions adjust the sharpness, contrast and color strength of a
picture.
Top menu [MODE MENU] [PICTURE] [SHARPNESS] /
[CONTRAST] / [SATURATION] g“Using the menus” (P. 17)
1 Press sr to adjust the hue
between [-5] and [+5].
(When [SHARPNESS] is
selected
• Toward + : The image contours are
emphasized, making the
image appear sharper
and more vivid. Use this
setting when you want to
print pictures. If you adjust the sharpness too far toward +,
noise may become conspicuous in the picture.
• Toward – : The image contours are softened. Use this setting when you
want to edit images on a computer.
(When [CONTRAST] is selected
• Toward + : The light and dark areas are defined more clearly, making
the image look crisper.
• Toward – : The light and dark areas become less defined, giving the
image a softer impression. Use this setting when you want
to edit images on a computer.
(When [SATURATION] is selected
• Toward + : Colors become stronger.
• Toward – : Colors become weaker.
SHARPNESS This function adjusts the sharpness of the picture.
CONTRAST This function adjusts the contrast of the picture. For example, you
can make pictures with marked differences in light and shadow
softer, and those with less differences more vivid.
SATURATION This function adjusts the color strength.
±
0
CAMPICTURE
SET
MEM
SHARPNESS
WB
CONTRAST
When [SHARPNESS] is
selected










