Olympus C5500 C-5500 Sport Zoom Advanced Manual - Page 23

Tips before you start taking pictures Turning the monitor on/off You can take pictures with or without using the monitor. MONITOR ON For taking pictures using the monitor (factory default setting) MONITOR OFF For taking pictures using the viewfinder Mode dial Top menu [MONITOR OFF] / [MONITOR ON] g"Menus" (P.16) 2 (Features of the monitor and viewfinder Monitor Viewfinder Advantages You can check the picture area that the camera actually records. Camera movement does not occur easily and subjects can be seen clearly even in bright places. Little battery power is used. Camera movement occurs easily When close to a subject, the and subjects may be difficult to image in the viewfinder differs Disadvantages see in bright/dark places. The slightly from the picture that the monitor uses more battery power camera actually records. than the viewfinder. Use the monitor when you need to Use the viewfinder for general Tips know the exact area the camera snapshots, landscape pictures records, or to take a close-up of a and other casual shots. person or flower (macro shooting). Viewfinder • The camera records a wider area than the image in the viewfinder. • As you get closer to the subject, the actual image recorded (the shaded area in the illustration on the left) differs slightly from the image in the viewfinder. TIPS The monitor turns off automatically. → If the camera is not used for over 3 minutes, the monitor turns off automatically. Press the shutter button or zoom lever to turn the monitor on. To adjust the brightness of the monitor. → Adjust the brightness with the [s] settings. g"Monitor brightness adjustment" (P.117) The monitor is hard to see. → Bright light, such as direct sunlight, may cause vertical lines (smears) to appear on the image in the monitor. This does not affect recorded pictures. 23