Operating Manual
Table Of Contents
- Read this first!
- Contents
- Unpacking
- General Guide
- Monitor Screen Contents
- Quick Start Basics
- What is a digital camera?
- What you can do with your camera
- First, charge the battery prior to use.
- Configuring Basic Settings the First Time You Turn On the Camera
- Preparing a Memory Card
- Turning the Camera On and Off
- Holding the Camera Correctly
- To shoot a snapshot
- Viewing Snapshots
- Deleting Snapshots and Movies
- Snapshot Shooting Precautions
- Snapshot Tutorial
- Recording Movie Images and Audio
- Using Scene Mode
- Advanced Settings
- Using On-screen Menus
- REC Mode Settings (REC)
- Selecting a Focus Mode (Focus)
- Changing the Focus Frame Shape (Focus Frame)
- Using Burst
- Reducing the Effects of Camera and Subject Movement (Stabilizer)
- Specifying the Auto Focus Area (AF Area)
- Assigning Functions to the [] and [] Keys (L/R Key)
- Displaying the On-screen Grid (Grid)
- Using Icon Help (Icon Help)
- Configuring Power On Default Settings (Memory)
- Image Quality Settings (Quality)
- Viewing Snapshots and Movies
- Other Playback Functions (PLAY)
- Using the PLAY Panel
- Playing a Slideshow on the Camera (Slideshow)
- Performing Playback without Disturbing Others (Silent Mode)
- Rotating an Image (Rotate)
- Selecting Images for Printing (DPOF)
- Protecting a File Against Deletion (Protect)
- Resizing a Snapshot (Resize)
- Cropping a Snapshot (Trimming)
- Adding Audio to a Snapshot (Voice Memo)
- Copying Files (Copy)
- Printing
- Using the Camera with a Computer
- Other Settings (Set Up)
- Configuring Camera Sound Settings (Sounds)
- Configuring a Startup Image
- Specifying the File Name Serial Number Generation Rule (File Numbering)
- Configuring World Time Settings (World Time)
- Time Stamping Snapshots (Date Stamp)
- Setting the Camera’s Clock (Adjust)
- Specifying the Date Format
- Specifying the Display Language (Language)
- Configuring Sleep State Settings (LCD Save)
- Configuring Auto Power Settings (Power Saving)
- Configuring [] and [] Settings (REC/PLAY)
- Disabling File Deletion ( Disable)
- Configuring USB Protocol Settings (USB)
- Selecting the Screen Aspect Ratio and Video Output System (TV Out)
- Formatting Built-in Memory or a Memory Card (Format)
- Resetting the Camera to Factory Defaults (Reset)
- Appendix
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If you hold the zoom controller towards (Telephoto), the zoom operation will stop
when the optical zoom factor reaches its maximum. Momentarily releasing the zoom
controller and then holding it again towards (Telephoto) will switch to digital zoom,
which you can use to set an even higher zoom factor.
• During zoom, a zoom bar on the monitor screen shows the current zoom setting.
• The image deterioration point
depends on the image size (page
31). The smaller the image size,
the higher the zoom factor you
can use before reaching the
image deterioration point.
• Though digital zoom generally
causes a deterioration of image
quality, some digital zoom
without image deterioration is
possible with image sizes of
“10M” and smaller. The range in
which you can use digital zoom
without image deterioration is
indicated on the display. The
deterioration point depends on
the image size.
Optical Zoom and Digital Zoom Switch Point
Zoom bar
Focusing range
(Displayed for Auto Focus, Macro Focus, and Manual
Focus.)
12.5X to 84.4X
Undeteriorated image
quality range
1X
50.0X to 159.5X
Zoom pointer (Indicates current zoom.)
Image deterioration
Optical/digital zoom switch point
* 12.5X optical zoom point
Deteriorated image
quality range
Image
Size
Maximum
Zoom Factor
Undeteriorated
zoom limit
16M 50.0X 12.5X
3:2 50.0X 12.5X
16:9 50.0X 12.5X
10M 59.3X 14.8X
6M 76.6X 19.1X
3M 105.4X 26.4X
VGA 159.5X 84.4X