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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Advanced shooting modes
3
Selecting the right mode for shooting conditions
A : Aperture priority shooting
The camera sets the optimum shutter speed automatically for the aperture
value you have selected. When you open the aperture (decrease the aperture
value), the camera will focus within a shorter range (shallow depth of field) and
produce a picture with a blurred background. Conversely, when you close the
aperture (increase the aperture value), the camera will focus over a wider
range in the forward and backward directions (more depth of field), producing
a picture with clear focus throughout the image area. Before shooting, you can
use the preview function to check how the background will look in your picture.
1 Set the mode dial to A.
2 Rotate the control dial to
set the aperture value.
When the aperture value
(f-number) is decreased
When the aperture value
(f-number) is increased
Open the aperture (f-number is decreased)
Close the aperture (f-number is increased)