User guide
Table Of Contents
- How to use this manual
- How to read the instruction pages
- Safety precautions
- 1 Basic operations
- 2 Things to know before shooting
- 3 Selecting the right mode for shooting conditions
- 4 Various shooting functions
- 5 Focusing functions
- 6 Exposure, image and color
- Metering mode - Changing the metering system
- Exposure compensation - Varying the image brightness
- AE lock - Locking the exposure
- ISO - Setting the desired sensitivity to light
- AE bracketing
- White balance - Adjusting the color tone
- Picture mode
- Gradation
- Shading compensation
- Noise reduction
- Color space
- Anti-shock
- 7 Playback
- 8 Customizing the settings/ functions of your camera
- Custom reset setting
- AEL/AFL mode
- AEL/AFL memo
- AEL metering
- EV step
- ISO step
- ISO boost
- ISO limit
- Compensating all WB
- Manual flash
- Speed synchronization
- Auto flash popup
- Customizing the control dial’s function
- One-touch WB button function
- My Mode setting
- Reset lens
- Focus ring
- Priority setting
- Quick erase
- Erasing RAW and JPEG files
- File name
- Rename file
- Rec view - Checking the picture immediately after shooting
- Setting the warning tone
- Monitor brightness adjustment
- Sleep timer
- USB mode
- Changing the display language
- Selecting the video signal type before TV connection
- Button timer
- Auto power off
- Start-up screen
- Changing monitor color
- Firmware
- Setting the date/time
- 9 Printing
- 10 Transferring images to a computer
- 11 Appendix
- 12 Information
- 13 Accessories

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If correct focus cannot be obtained
2
Things to know before shooting
2 Press the shutter button halfway until
the AF confirmation mark lights.
• The focus is locked. The AF confirmation
mark and the AF focusing frame light up in
the viewfinder.
• If the AF comfirmation mark blinks, press the
shutter button halfway again.
• The control panel screen disappears.
3 While keeping the shutter button
pressed halfway, re-compose your shot.
4 Press the shutter button all the way.
• The card access lamp blinks while the picture
is being stored on the card.
If the subject has lower contrast than its surroundings
Focus (focus lock) on a high-contrast object the same distance away as the
intended subject, recompose your shot and then take the picture.
Halfway down
AF confirmation mark
All the way down










