Document Outline

• Basic guide
  • Names of parts and functions
    • Camera
    • Mode dial
    • Viewfinder
    • Super control panel
    • LCD monitor (Live view)
    • LCD monitor (Playback)
    • Unpack the box contents
  • Preparations for shooting
    • Preparing the battery
    • Attaching a lens to the camera
    • Loading the card
    • Power on
    • Setting the date/time
    • Shooting
    • Playback/Erasing
    • Indications used in this manual
• Table of Contents
• 1 Basic camera operations
  • Using the direct buttons
  • Using the super control panel
  • Using the menu
  • Resetting to the factory default settings
• 2 Shooting guides－Improving your shooting skills
  • Basic function guides
    • Focus－Operating the shutter button
    • Brightness－Exposure compensation
    • Color－White balance
    • Convenient settings－Customizing functions
  • A guide to functions for different subjects
    • Taking landscape pictures
    • Taking flower pictures
    • Taking night scene pictures
• 3 Using live view
  • Activating live view
    • Functions available during live view
    • The live view mechanism
  • Taking a picture using live view
    • AF operation during live view
  • Using the face detection function
  • Taking a picture using manual focus
  • Switching the information display
  • Taking a picture while comparing the effect
  • Enlarged display operation
  • Panorama shooting
• 4 Exposure
  • Program shooting
  • Aperture priority shooting
  • Shutter priority shooting
  • Manual shooting
    • Bulb shooting
  • Preview function
  • Changing the metering mode
  • Exposure compensation
  • AE lock
  • AE bracketing
  • ISO sensitivity setting
• 5 Focusing and shooting functions
  • AF mode selection
    • S-AF (single AF)
    • C-AF (continuous AF)
    • MF (manual focus)
    • Simultaneous use of S-AF mode and MF mode (S-AF+MF)
    • Simultaneous use of C-AF mode and MF mode (C-AF+MF)
  • AF target selection
    • Registering the AF target position
  • Focus lock－If correct focus cannot be obtained
  • Sequential shooting
  • Self-timer shooting
  • Remote control shooting
  • Anti-shock
  • Image stabilizer
    • Checking the image stabilizer effect with live view
• 6 Record mode, white balance, and picture mode
  • Selecting the record mode
    • Recording formats
    • Selecting the record mode
  • Selecting the white balance
    • Setting the auto/preset/custom white balance
    • WB compensation
    • Setting the one-touch white balance
  • WB bracketing
  • Picture mode
  • Gradation
  • Noise reduction
  • Noise filter
• 7 Flash shooting
  • Flash mode setting
  • Built-in flash shooting
  • Flash intensity control
  • Flash bracketing
  • External flash shooting
  • Shooting with the Olympus wireless RC flash system
  • Using commercially available flashes
• 8 Playback functions
  • Single-frame/Close-up playback
  • Light box display
  • Index display/Calendar display
  • Information display
  • Slideshow
  • Rotating images
  • Playback on TV
  • Editing still images
  • Copying images
  • Protecting images
  • Erasing images
• 9 Customizing your camera
  • Custom Menu 1
  • AF/MF
    • AF ILLUMINAT
    • FOCUS RING
    • RESET LENS
    • BULB FOCUSING
    • LIVE VIEW AF MODE
  • BUTTON/DIAL
    • DIAL FUNCTION
    • DIAL DIRECTION
    • AEL/AFL
    • AEL/AFL MEMO
    • 〔Fn〕FUNCTION
    • FUNCTION
    • MY MODE SETUP
    • BUTTON TIMER
    • AEL/AFL button and the Fn button
    • (arrow pad) LOCK
  • RELEASE
    • RLS PRIORITY S/RLS PRIORITY C
  • DISP/Sound/PC
    • Sound
    • SLEEP
    • BACKLIT LCD (Backlight timer)
    • 4 h TIMER (Auto power off)
    • USB MODE
    • LIVE VIEW BOOST
    • FACE DETECT
    • FRAME ASSIST (Ruled lines display)
  • EXP/Metering/ISO
    • EV STEP
    • ISO-AUTO SET
    • ISO-AUTO
    • AELMetering
    • BULB TIMER
  • CUSTOM
    • X-SYNC
    • SLOW LIMIT
    • the exposure compensation value and flash intensity
    • AUTO POP UP
  • COLOR/WB
    • ALL
    • COLOR SPACE
    • SHADING COMP.
    • SET
    • PIXEL COUNT
  • RECORD/ERASE
    • QUICK ERASE
    • RAW+JPEG ERASE
    • FILE NAME
    • PRIORITY SET
    • dpi SETTING
  • UTILITY
    • CLEANING MODE
    • SPORT/NIGHT+PORTRAIT/UNDERWATER MACRO/UNDERWATER WIDE
  • Custom Menu 2
    • (Date/time setting)
    • CF/xD
    • EDIT FILENAME
    • (Monitor brightness adjustment)
    • (Changing the display language)
    • VIDEO OUT
    • REC VIEW
    • PIXEL MAPPING
    • FIRMWARE
• 10 Printing
  • Print reservation (DPOF)
    • Print reservation
    • Single-frame reservation
    • All-frame reservation
    • Resetting the print reservation data
  • Direct printing (PictBridge)
    • Connecting the camera to a printer
    • Easy printing
    • Custom printing
• 11 Using the OLYMPUS Master software
  • Flowchart
  • Using the provided OLYMPUS Master software
    • What is OLYMPUS Master?
  • Connecting the camera to a computer
  • Start up the OLYMPUS Master software
  • Displaying camera images on a computer
    • Downloading and saving images
    • Disconnecting the camera from your computer
  • Viewing still images
  • To increase the number of languages
  • Transferring images to your computer without usingOLYMPUS Master
• 12 Shooting tips and maintenance
  • Shooting tips and information
    • Tips before you start taking pictures
    • Shooting tips
    • Additional shooting tips and information
    • Playback tips
    • Viewing pictures on a computer
  • Error codes
  • Camera maintenance
    • Cleaning and storing the camera
    • Cleaning mode k Removing dust
    • Pixel mapping k Checking the image processing functions
• 13 Information
  • Card basics
    • Usable cards
    • Formatting the card
  • Battery and charger
  • Using your charger abroad
  • Interchangeable lenses
    • ZUIKO DIGITAL interchangeable lens
    • ZUIKO DIGITAL lens specifications
  • Program line diagram (P mode)
  • Exposure warning display
  • Flash modes that can be set by shooting mode
  • White balance color temperature
  • Record mode and file size/number of storable still pictures
  • Functions that can be registered with My Mode andCustom Reset Setting
  • Menu directory
  • Glossary
  • Specifications
  • SAFETY PRECAUTIONS
  • Index