Olympus C-2500L - Manual (Page 39)

Setting Aperture
By setting the aperture manually, you can take sharp pictures from foreground to background or with the foreground and back-
ground deliberately out-of-focus.
Set the mode dial to "A" or "M".
Use the left point of the jog dial to set the aperture at and
the right point to set the aperture at .
Press the shutter release button down halfway to lock the focus.
The green lamp inside the viewfinder will light up to indicate the cam-
era is ready to take the picture.
The exposure level will be displayed on the control panel when you
are in the M mode.
If exposure is off by more than ±2 EV, a triangle blinks on the panel.
If metering is impossible, the entire exposure indications blinks.
Press the shutter release button down all the way.
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Exposure Compensation
In the P and A modes, you can compensate exposure to ±2EV in 1/3 EV steps.
Set the mode dial to "P" or "A".
While holding down the [+/-] button, set the exposure compen-
sation with the right / left point of the jog dial.
Pressing the right point of the jog dial with the [+/-] button held down
increases (+) compensation.
Pressing the left point of the jog dial with the [+/-] button held down
increases (-) compensation.
Exposure compensation will be displayed on the control panel. A
tone is emitted when either the highest or lowest value of the expo-
sure compensation is reached.
Once the exposure compensation is decided, press the shutter
release button down halfway.
The green lamp inside the viewfinder will light up to indicate the cam-
era is ready to take the picture.
Press the shutter release button down all the way.
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MEMO
• The flash light is not compensated automatically. See P. 47 about
how to change the amount of the flash light.
Triangle
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"A" / "M"
MEMO
• Aperture has varying values in the TELE and the WIDE modes.
WIDE TELE
F2.8 F3.9
F5.6 F7.8
NOTE
• If exposure is compensated in the positive direction when the flash is
used, the shutter speed will be reduced in order to expose the back-
ground more clearly. In this case, hold the camera firmly to avoid pic-
ture blur.
• The selected exposure compensation value is stored in memory
although the power is switched off. Check the value when turning on
the camera again.
NOTE
• If the aperture is set at , smear may occur in the picture frame in
areas where there is a bright object (e.g., reflected sunlight). This
phenomenon is a normal characteristic of the CCD. Should this hap-
pen, set the aperture to
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