α Handbook
Table Of Contents
- Table of contents
- Introduction of functions
- Before use
- Functions list
- Preparing the camera
- Shooting and viewing images
- Selecting a shooting mode
- Switching the recording information display
- Adjusting the focus
- Adjusting the brightness of the image
- Using the drive mode
- Advanced shooting
- Using the flash (sold separately)
- Flash modes available
- Flash Compensation
- Flash control
- FEL lock
- Setting ISO
- Compensating for the brightness and contrast automatically (D-Range)
- Setting the image processing
- Adjusting the color tones (White balance)
- Setting image size
- Setting the aspect ratio and image quality
- Detecting faces
- Smile Shutter
- Zooming
- Reducing the noise in an image
- Setting the color space
- Movie recording setup
- Advanced playback
- Setup of the camera
- Viewing images on a computer
- Troubleshooting/Others
- Index
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The functions selected with the MENU button
Functions list
Playback menu
Dial exp.comp (107) Compensates the exposure with the front or rear control dial.
(Off/ Front dial/ Rear dial)
Exp.comp.set Sets whether or not to compensate the exposure within the
flash light range.
(Ambient&flash/Ambient only)
Bracket order Selects the order in exposure bracket and white balance
bracket shooting.
(0 t – t +/– t 0 t +)
Lens Comp.: Shading
(181)
Compensates for the shaded corners of the screen caused by
the lens attached.
(Auto/Off)
Lens Comp.: Chro.
Aber. (181)
Reduces the color deviation at the corners of the screen
caused by the lens attached.
(Auto/Off)
Lens Comp.:
Distortion (181)
Compensates for distortion on the screen caused by the lens
attached.
(Auto/Off)
Front Curtain Shutter
(177)
Sets whether or not to use the electronic front curtain shutter
function.
(On/Off)
Face Priority
Tracking (97)
Sets whether to preferentially-track a certain face or not when
the camera detects that face during object tracking.
(On/Off)
Face Registration
(142)
Registers or changes the person to be given priority in the
focus.
(New Registration/Order Exchanging/Delete/Delete All)
Still/Movie Select
(160)
Allows you to determine how to group the playback images
(View mode).
(Folder View(Still)/Folder View(MP4)/AVCHD View)
Delete (170) Deletes images.
(Multiple Img./All in Folder/All AVCHD view files)
Slide Show (163) Shows a slide show.
(Repeat/Interval/Image Type)










