Olympus E-1 E-1 Pocket Guide (English) - Page 1

POCKET GUIDE This guide is a simple summary of E-1 functions. Carry this at all times and take advantage of it to ensure smooth camera operation. How to Use This Guide e.g. Button & Dial operation (Exposure compensation) Main dial: Changes the functions or settings. + or Sub dial: Changes the functions or settings. Finger mark: Do other operations Frame: while holding the button. Do the operations in the frame simultaneously. Here it means to compensate the exposure by rotating the main dial or sub dial while holding down the exposure compensation button. e.g. Menu operation (EV step) Follow the procedure in order as shown and confirm the settings by pressing the OK button. 1/3EV 1 EV STEP 1/2EV 1EV OK Menu button: Displays the menu. Use the arrow pad to select the settings on the menu displayed on the monitor. Arrow pad OK button: Confirms the settings. OLYMPUS CORPORATION Shinjuku Monolith, 3-1 Nishi-Shinjuku 2-chome, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo 163-0914 OLYMPUS AMERICA INC. Two Corporate Center Drive, Melville, NY 11747-3157, U.S.A. Tel. 1-631-844-5000 Technical Support (USA) 24/7 online automated help: http://www.olympusamerica.com/E1 Phone customer support: Tel. 1-800-260-1625 (Toll-free) Our phone customer support is available from 8 am to 10 pm (Monday to Friday) ET E-Mail: [email protected] OLYMPUS OPTICAL CO. (EUROPA) GMBH. Premises/Goods delivery: Wendenstrasse 14-18, 20097 Hamburg, Germany Tel. +49 (0) 40-23 77 30 Fax. +49 40-23 07 61 Letters: Postfach 10 49 08, 20034 Hamburg, Germany European Technical Customer Support: Please visit our homepage http://www.olympus-europa.com or call our TOLL FREE NUMBER: 00800 - 67 10 83 00 for Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Italy, Luxemburg, Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom · Please note some (mobile) phone services/provider do not permit access or request an additional prefix to +800 numbers. For all not listed European Countries and in case that you can't get connected to the above mentioned number please make use of the following: CHARGED NUMBERS: +49 (0) 1805-67 10 83 or +49 (0) 40-23 77 38 99 Our Technical Customer Support is available from 9 am to 6 pm MET (Monday to Friday) Exposure Exposure compensation Adjustable range:±5.0EV EV step interval:1/3EV,1/2EV,1EV Control panel + or (exposure compensation) button * Exposure compensation is not available in M mode. * EV step interval can be changed. (Refer to the instruction manual.) Metering mode + or Adjusting toward - Exposure compensation value Exposure compensation indicator Control panel (metering mode) button Spot metering Center weighted averaging metering Digital ESP metering AE lock Pressing the AEL button locks the metered exposure value for the subject. AEL button + Halfway down (AE/AF is locked) All the way down (Shutter is released) Viewfinder lights up (AE is locked) * AE lock is not available in M mode. * The functions assigned to AF lock and AE lock can be customized. (Refer to "AEL/AFL mode" on P. 5.) AE bracketing EV step interval:1/3EV,1/2EV,1EV Number of frames: 3 or 5 Control panel + or BKT button ISO sensitivity EV step interval Number Bracket shooting of frames Compensation range AUTO,100,200,400,800, 1600,3200 ISO BOOST mode Control panel + or ISO button Using the ISO BOOST mode 1 ISO BOOST (AUTO) ON OK 1