Taking panoramas, Other shooting options, Taking pictures for a panorama – Olympus E-PL3 User Manual

Page 54: Rotate the mode dial to scn, Select [panorama] and press q, Use fghi to choose a pan direction, Take a picture, using the guides to frame the shot

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Other shooting options

2

Taking Panoramas

If you have installed the supplied computer software, you can use it to join pictures
together to form a panorama.

g “Using OLYMPUS Viewer 2/[ib]” (P. 73)

Taking pictures for a panorama

1

Rotate the mode dial to

SCN.

2

Select [Panorama] and press

Q.

3

Use

FGHI to choose a pan direction.

4

Take a picture, using the guides to frame the
shot.

Focus, exposure, and other settings are fi xed at the
values for the fi rst shot.

250

250 F5.6

38

M

ISO

200

5

Take the remaining images, framing each shot so that the guides overlap
with the previous picture.

[ 2 ]

250

250 F5.6

38

M

ISO

200

[ 3 ]

Exit

Exit

A panorama may include up to 10 images. A warning indicator (

g) is displayed after

the tenth shot.

6

After taking the last shot, press

Q to end the series.

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Cautions

During panorama shooting, the image previously taken for position alignment will not be
displayed. With the frames or other markers for display in the images as a guide, set the
composition such that the edges of the overlapping images overlap within the frames.

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Notes

Pressing

Q before shooting the fi rst frame returns to the scene mode selection menu.

Pressing

Q in the midst of shooting ends the sequence of panorama shooting, and allows

you to continue with the next one.

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