Olympus 300 Digital Stylus 300 Digital Reference Manual (English) - Page 54

Taking still pictures • Never open the card cover, remove the battery or disconnect the AC adapter while the orange lamp is blinking. Doing so could destroy stored pictures and prevent storage of the pictures you have just taken. • When taking pictures against strong backlight, the area of the picture in shadow may appear colored. • When you point the camera lens toward a bright subject, smears (lines like beams of light) may appear on the image in the monitor. This does not affect recorded pictures. Comparison of the viewfinder & monitor Viewfinder Monitor Advantages Camera movement does You can check the picture area not occur easily and that the camera actually subjects can be seen clearly even in bright records more accurately. 4 places. Little battery power is used. Disadvantages When close to a subject, Camera movement can occur the image in the viewfinder easily and subjects may be is a little different from the difficult to see in bright/dark picture that the camera places. The monitor uses more actually records. battery power than the viewfinder. Tips Use the viewfinder for Use the monitor when you general snapshots want to shoot while checking (landscape pictures, casual shots, etc.). the picture area that the camera actually records. Use when taking macro pictures or close-ups of a person or flower. • The camera records a wider area than the image in the viewfinder. • As you get closer to the subject, the actual image recorded becomes lower than the one in the viewfinder (see left). Shooting basics 53