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Changing Basic Settings 1. On the Viewfinder screen, tap to open the menu panel. 2. To change basic camera settings, tap one of these icons in the menu panel: ⅷ Exposure There's a Brightness bar that allows you to adjust the brightness level. Slide your finger up or down the Brightness bar to increase or decrease brightness. ⅷ Image properties Slide your finger across each of the slider bars to adjust the contrast, saturation, and sharpness. ⅷ Effect You can apply a special effect to photos and videos that you will capture. Scroll through the Effect menu and choose from effects such as sepia, solarize, and posterize. Changing Advanced Settings 1. On the Viewfinder screen, tap to open the menu panel. 2. Tap in the menu panel to display the Settings menu and access more camera settings. The following are settings that you can change from the Settings menu: ⅷ White balance: White balance enables the camera to capture colors more accurately by adjusting to your current lighting environment. White balance settings include: Auto, Incandescent, Fluorescent, Daylight, and Cloudy. ⅷ ISO (photo mode only): You can choose an ISO level or set it back to Auto. Higher ISO numbers are better for taking pictures in low light conditions. ⅷ Resolution: Select a photo or video resolution to use for capturing. ⅷ Widescreen (photo mode only): When this check box is selected (default), photo resolutions available for selection are in 3:2 ratio and you can use the entire Viewfinder screen to frame your subject. When not selected, photo resolutions available for selection are in standard 4:3 ratio. ⅷ Quality (photo mode only): Select the quality level to use for capturing photos. ⅷ Self-timer (photo mode only): If you need to take a self-portrait or group photo, you can set the self-timer to either 2 or 10 seconds. ⅷ Geo-tag photos (photo mode only): Select this check box when you want to store GPS location in your captured photos. ⅷ Encoding type (video mode only): Choose the type of compression to use when capturing video. ⅷ Recording length (video mode only): Set the maximum duration or file size for capturing video. ⅷ Record with audio (video mode only): Select or clear the check box, depending on whether you want to record audio when capturing videos. ⅷ Metering mode: Set how the camera measures the amount of light to calculate the best exposure: Ⅲ Spot metering mode allows the camera to measure light around the focus point. Ⅲ Center area mode allows the camera to measure light in the center. Ⅲ Average mode allows the camera to measure light in the whole image. ⅷ Review duration: Set the time for a captured photo or video to be displayed on the Review screen before the camera changes back to the Viewfinder screen. ⅷ Flicker adjustment: When taking indoor shots under fluorescent lighting, keep this setting on Auto or change it to the proper frequency (50Hz or 60Hz) of the power in your country to reduce flicker. ⅷ Auto Focus: This option enables or disables centered auto focus. Auto focus is enabled by default. ⅷ Shutter sound: Select or clear this check box, depending on whether you want the camera to play a shutter sound when you press the shutter release. 72 2H. Camera and Multimedia

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2H. Camera and Multimedia
Changing Basic Settings
1.
On the Viewfinder screen, tap
to open the menu panel.
2.
To change basic camera settings, tap one of these icons in the menu panel:
³
Exposure
There’s a Brightness bar that allows you to adjust the brightness level. Slide your finger up or down the
Brightness bar to increase or decrease brightness.
³
Image properties
Slide your finger across each of the slider bars to adjust the contrast, saturation, and sharpness.
³
Effect
You can apply a special effect to photos and videos that you will capture. Scroll through the Effect
menu and choose from effects such as sepia, solarize, and posterize.
Changing Advanced Settings
1.
On the Viewfinder screen, tap
to open the menu panel.
2.
Tap
in the menu panel to display the Settings menu and access more camera settings. The following
are settings that you can change from the Settings menu:
³
White balance:
White balance enables the camera to capture colors more accurately by adjusting to your
current lighting environment. White balance settings include:
Auto
,
Incandescent
,
Fluorescent
,
Daylight
, and
Cloudy
.
³
ISO (photo mode only):
You can choose an ISO level or set it back to
Auto
. Higher ISO numbers are better for
taking pictures in low light conditions.
³
Resolution:
Select a photo or video resolution to use for capturing.
³
Widescreen (photo mode only):
When this check box is selected (default), photo resolutions available for
selection are in 3:2 ratio and you can use the entire Viewfinder screen to frame your subject. When not
selected, photo resolutions available for selection are in standard 4:3 ratio.
³
Quality (photo mode only):
Select the quality level to use for capturing photos.
³
Self-timer (photo mode only):
If you need to take a self-portrait or group photo, you can set the self-timer to
either 2 or 10 seconds.
³
Geo-tag photos (photo mode only):
Select this check box when you want to store GPS location in your
captured photos.
³
Encoding type (video mode only):
Choose the type of compression to use when capturing video.
³
Recording length (video mode only):
Set the maximum duration or file size for capturing video.
³
Record with audio (video mode only):
Select or clear the check box, depending on whether you want to record
audio when capturing videos.
³
Metering mode:
Set how the camera measures the amount of light to calculate the best exposure:
²
Spot metering
mode allows the camera to measure light around the focus point.
²
Center area
mode allows the camera to measure light in the center.
²
Average
mode allows the camera to measure light in the whole image.
³
Review duration:
Set the time for a captured photo or video to be displayed on the Review screen before the
camera changes back to the Viewfinder screen.
³
Flicker adjustment:
When taking indoor shots under fluorescent lighting, keep this setting on
Auto
or change
it to the proper frequency (
50Hz
or
60Hz
) of the power in your country to reduce flicker.
³
Auto Focus:
This option enables or disables centered auto focus. Auto focus is enabled by default.
³
Shutter sound:
Select or clear this check box, depending on whether you want the camera to play a shutter
sound when you press the shutter release.