α Handbook
Table Of Contents
- Table of Contents
- Basic operations
- Advanced operations
- Preparation
- Shooting
- Selecting the shooting mode
- Movie recording setup
- Adjusting the focus
- Detecting faces
- Adjusting the brightness of the image
- The flash
- Setting ISO
- Compensating for the brightness and contrast automatically (D-Range)
- Setting the image processing
- Adjusting the color tones (White balance)
- Magnifies images with higher scale than the optical zoom (ZOOM)
- Selecting the drive mode
- Playback
- Setup of the camera
- Computer
- Cleaning
- Trouble shooting/Others
- Index
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Preparing the camera
Identifying parts
See the pages in parentheses for details of operation.
A Shutter button (31)
B Power switch (27)
C Control dial (92, 94, 96)
D Self-timer lamp (141)
E Lens contacts*
F Mirror*
G Preview button (94, 159)
H Mount
I Built-in flash* (41, 124)
J Microphone** (104)
K Mode dial (37)
L (Flash pop-up) button (41,
124)
M Mounting index (24)
N Lens release button (25)
O Focus mode switch (106, 113)
* Do not directly touch these
parts.
** Do not cover this part
during movie recording.
Doing so may cause noise
or lower the volume.
Front side