Detailed instructions for use are in the User's Guide.
DIGITAL CAMERA
D-580ZOOM C-460ZOOM X-400
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
D-580ZOOM C-460ZOOM X-400
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. Screen and camera illustrations shown in this manual may differ from those of the actual product.
For customers in North and South America For customers in USA
Declaration of Conformity Model Number : D-580ZOOM/C-460ZOOM/X-400 Trade Name : OLYMPUS Responsible Party : Olympus America Inc. Address : 2 Corporate Center Drive, Melville, New York 11747-3157 U.S.A. Telephone Number :1-631-844-5000 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).
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Composition of the manual
Contents Getting started About the menus Shooting basics Advanced shooting Playback Useful functions Print setting (DPOF) Printing pictures. Direct printing (PictBridge) Troubleshooting and other information. Miscellaneous Specifications Glossary of terms Index
P.4 P.9
Introduction of the camera's functions.
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11
P.32
For shooting and learning the basic operations. For fine- tuning the settings to get that particular shot. For playing back and arranging pictures. Settings that make the camera easier to operate.
P.41
P.63
P.84 P.105
P.119 P.128
P.142 P.157 P.159 P.161
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Composition of the manual . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
1 Getting started
9
Names of parts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 Camera . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 Monitor indications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 How to use this manual . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 Attaching the strap. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 Loading the batteries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 Selecting optional batteries or an AC adapter. . . . . . . . . . 18 Inserting a card . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 Card basics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 Removing the card . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 Power on/off . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 Startup/Shutdown screen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 If the card is not recognized (card check) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 Selecting a language . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 Setting the date and time . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29 Holding the camera . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
2 About the menus
32
Types of menus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 How to use the menus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33 Shortcut menus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 Shooting mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 Playback mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36 Mode Menus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37 Shooting mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37 Playback mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
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3 Shooting basics
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Shooting mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41 Taking still pictures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44 Taking still pictures using the monitor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44 Taking still pictures using the viewfinder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46 Comparison of the viewfinder & monitor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48 Turning off the monitor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49 If correct focus cannot be obtained . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50 Determine the position of the subject after focusing (Focus Lock) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50 Subjects that are difficult to focus on . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52 Night scene mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53 Recording movies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55 Zoom . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57 Using the optical zoom . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57 Using the digital zoom . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58 Using the flash . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
4 Advanced shooting
63
Macro mode shooting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63 Super macro mode shooting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65 Self-timer shooting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66 Selecting the metering area . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67 Sequential shooting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68 PANORAMA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69 Taking two-in-one pictures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71 Selecting a record mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73 . 77 Varying the image brightness (Exposure compensation) Adjusting the white balance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79 Recording sound with still pictures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81 Recording sound with movies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83
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5 Playback
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Viewing still pictures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84 QUICK VIEW. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85 Close-up playback . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86 Picture rotation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87 Index display . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88 Selecting the number of pictures. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89 Slideshow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90 Playback on a TV . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91 MOVIE PLAYBACK - Viewing movies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92 Recording sound . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94 Protecting pictures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95 Erasing pictures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96 Single-frame erase . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96 All-frame erase . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97 Editing still pictures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98 Creating black and white pictures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99 Creating sepia-toned pictures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99 Resizing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100 Editing movies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101 INDEX - Creating an index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102 EDIT - Editing a movie . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103
6 Useful functions
105
ALL RESET - Saving the camera's settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105 CARD SETUP - Formatting cards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107 Displaying shooting information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109 Adjusting the monitor brightness . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110 REC VIEW . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111 Turning off the operation and beep sound . . . . . . . . . . . 112 PW ON/OFF SETUP - Power on/off display setting . . . . . . . 113 SCREEN SETUP. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114
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FILE NAME . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116 PIXEL MAPPING. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117 VIDEO OUT - Setting the output signal type . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118
7 Print setting (DPOF)
119
With print reservation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119 All-frame reservation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121 Single-frame reservation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123 Resetting print reservation data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126
8 Direct printing (PictBridge)
128
Using the direct printing function . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128 Connecting the camera to a printer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129 Printing pictures. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130 Using the simple print method. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131 PRINT mode/MULTI PRINT mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132 ALL PRINT mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136 ALL INDEX mode/PRINT ORDER mode . . . . . . . . . . . . 138 Exiting direct printing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140 If an error code is displayed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141
9 Miscellaneous
142
Error codes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142 Troubleshooting. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143 The camera does not work . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143 The image quality is poor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147 Miscellaneous . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149 List of menus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150 List of factory default settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154 List of items by shooting mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155 Camera maintenance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 156
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Specifications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157 Glossary of terms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159 Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161
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1 Getting started
Names of parts
Camera
Shutter button P.45 Zoom lever (W/T· ) P.57, P.86, P.88
Flash Self-timer lamp
P.60 P.66
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Microphone P.81, P.83, P.94
Lens barrier Turns the camera on and off in the shooting Lens Extends automatically mode. when you open the lens barrier. DC-IN jack cover P.18 Connector cover P.91
Strap eyelet P.15 DC-IN jack P.18 Card slot P.21 A/V OUT jack (MONO) P.91
Card cover
P.21
USB connector P.129
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Names of parts
Arrow pad Buttons on the arrow pad have their respective functions. They are also used as direction buttons. , , and indicate which button to be pressed. Shooting mode button ( : Virtual Dial) P.41 Macro button ( ) ) ) P.66 P.63
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Getting started
Flash mode button ( P.60 OK/Menu button ( P.32 Self-timer button ( )
Viewfinder P.46
Monitor P.11 Arrow pad ( ...
