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User manual OLYMPUS CAMEDIA C-740

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DIGITAL CAMERA C-740 Ultra Zoom REFERENCE MANUAL CAMERA OPERATION MANUAL Explanation of digital camera functions and operating instructions. DIGITAL CAMERA - PC CONNECTION OPERATION MANUAL Explanation of how to download images between your digital camera and PC. DIGITAL CAMERA C-740 Ultra Zoom REFERENCE MANUAL Thank you for purchasing an Olympus digital camera. Before you start to use your new camera, please read these instructions carefully to enjoy optimum performance and a longer service life. Keep this manual in a safe place for future reference. We recommend that you take test shots to get accustomed to your camera before taking important photographs. In the interest of continually improving products, Olympus reserves the right to update or modify information contained in this manual. For customers in North and South America For customers in USA Declaration of Conformity Model Number : C-740 Ultra Zoom Trade Name : OLYMPUS Responsible Party : Olympus America Inc. Address : 2 Corporate Center Drive, Melville, New York 11747-3157 U.S.A. Telephone Number : 631-844-5000 Tested To Comply With FCC Standards FOR HOME OR OFFICE USE This device complies with Part 15 of the FCC rules. Operation is subject to the following two conditions: (1) This device may not cause harmful interference. (2) This device must accept any interference received, including interference that may cause undesired operation. For customers in Canada This Class B digital apparatus meets all requirements of the Canadian Interference-Causing Equipment Regulations. For customers in Europe "CE" mark indicates that this product complies with the European requirements for safety, health, environment and customer protection. "CE" mark cameras are intended for sales in Europe. Trademarks · · · · IBM is a registered trademark of International Business Machines Corporation. Microsoft and Windows are registered trademarks of Microsoft Corporation. Macintosh is a trademark of Apple Computer Inc. All other company and product names are registered trademarks and/or trademarks of their respective owners. · The standards for camera file systems referred to in this manual are the "Design Rule for Camera File System/DCF" standards stipulated by the Japan Electronics and Information Technology Industries Association (JEITA). 2 Contents Names of parts Getting started Using the menus Shooting basics Flash Advanced shooting Adjusting the image quality and exposure Playback Useful functions Print setting Miscellaneous Specifications Glossary of terms Index P.4 P.10 P.17 Introduction of the camera's functions Basic Photography 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 P.32 P.42 Advanced Photography To get that particular shot using various effects or for fine-tuning the settings. P.55 P.63 P.91 For playing back and editing pictures Settings that make the camera easier to operate. Printing pictures Troubleshooting and other information P.108 P.128 P.152 P.163 P.184 P.186 P.189 3 Contents Contents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Names of parts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 Camera . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 Viewfinder and monitor indications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 How to use this manual . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 1 Getting started 17 Attaching the strap. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 Loading the batteries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 Selecting optional batteries or an AC adapter. . . . . . . . . . 20 Inserting a card . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 Card basics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 Removing the card . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 Power on/off . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 Startup/Shutdown screen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 If the card is not recognized (card check) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 Selecting a language . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 Setting the date and time . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 Adjusting the viewfinder. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 Holding the camera . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31 2 Using the menus 32 About the menus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 How to use the menus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33 Shortcut menus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 Mode Menus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37 3 Shooting basics 42 Shooting modes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42 Taking still pictures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46 4 Contents If correct focus cannot be obtained . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49 Using the Focus Lock function . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49 Subjects that are difficult to focus on . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50 Recording movies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51 Zoom . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53 Using the optical zoom . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53 DIGITAL ZOOM - Using the digital zoom . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54 4 Flash 55 Flash shooting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55 Using the slow synchronization flash . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61 Flash intensity control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62 5 Advanced shooting 63 A/S/M mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63 Aperture priority shooting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64 Shutter priority shooting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65 Manual shooting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66 Using My Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67 Focusing applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68 AF MODE - Changing the focus range . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68 FULLTIME AF - A reliable time-saving way to focus. . . . . 69 AF AREA Changing the position of the AF target mark . 70 AF LOCK Locking the focus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71 Manual focus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73 Metering . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75 Spot metering . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75 MULTI METERING . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76 AE LOCK - Locking the exposure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78 Macro mode shooting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80 Super macro mode shooting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81 Self-timer shooting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82 5 Contents Sequential shooting . . . . . . . . . . . 83 Sequential shooting, high speed sequential shooting and AF sequential shooting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83 Auto bracketing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84 PANORAMA - Panorama shooting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86 2 IN 1 - Taking two-in-one pictures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88 FUNCTION - Adding special effects to pictures . . . . . . . . . . . 90 6 Adjusting the image quality and exposure 91 Record mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91 Selecting a record mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93 3:2 Resolution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95 ENLARGE SIZE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95 ISO sensitivity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96 Exposure compensation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97 White balance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98 Auto white balance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98 Preset white balance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99 One-touch white balance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99 White balance adjustment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101 SHARPNESS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102 CONTRAST . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103 SATURATION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104 NOISE REDUCTION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105 Histogram display . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106 7 Playback 108 Viewing still pictures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108 QUICK VIEW. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109 Close-up playback . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110 Index display . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111 Selecting the number of pictures. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112 6 Contents Slideshow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113 Viewing movies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114 Editing movies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116 INDEX - Creating an index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116 EDIT - Editing a movie . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118 Playback on a TV . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120 Picture rotation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121 Editing still pictures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122 Resizing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122 Trimming . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123 Protecting pictures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125 Erasing pictures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126 Single-frame erase . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126 All-frame erase . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127 8 Useful functions 128 ALL RESET Saving the camera's settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128 CUSTOM BUTTON . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130 Setting the custom button . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131 Using the custom button . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132 SHORT CUT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133 Setting the shortcut menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134 Using the shortcut menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135 MY MODE SETUP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136 CARD SETUP - Formatting Cards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139 Information display . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141 Monitor/viewfinder brightness adjustment . . . . . . . . . . . 142 REC VIEW . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143 SLEEP - Sleep Timer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144 Beep . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145 POWER ON/OFF SETUP - Power on/off display setting . . . 146 SCREEN SETUP. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147 FILE NAME . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148 PIXEL MAPPING . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149 7 Contents Measurement units . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150 VIDEO OUT - Video output selection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151 9 Print setting 152 How to print pictures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152 All-frame reservation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154 Single-frame reservation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 156 Trimming . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159 Resetting print reservation data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161 10 Miscellaneous 163 Error codes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163 Troubleshooting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...

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