Olympus C-370 ZOOM User Manual
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Taking still pictures
Shoo
ting
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Press the shutter button gently
(halfway) to adjust the focus.
• When the focus and exposure are locked, the
green lamp on the monitor lights steadily
(Focus Lock).
• When the flash is ready to fire, the
mark
lights.
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Press the shutter button all the way
(fully).
• The camera takes the picture.
• The orange lamp blinks while the picture is
being stored in the internal memory or on the
card. The next shot is available when the
orange lamp stops blinking.
TIPS
Correct focus cannot be obtained on the subject you want to shoot.
→
"If correct focus cannot be obtained" (P.42)
The green lamp on the monitor blinks.
→
The distance to the subject is too close. Take the picture at least 50 cm/
1.6 ft. away from the subject for wide-angle shooting. (For telephoto: 90
cm/3.0 ft.) If you use the super macro mode, you can take pictures as
close as 2 cm/0.8". from the subject.
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Depending on the subject, the focus may not be locked.
"If correct focus cannot be obtained" (P.42)
The
mark blinks when pressing the shutter button halfway.
→
The flash is charging. Wait until the lamp goes off.
The monitor turns off automatically.
→
If the camera is not used for over 30 seconds, it enters to the sleep
mode, and the monitor turns off automatically. Press the shutter button
or the
to turn the monitor on.
"SLEEP - Setting the time period to switch to the sleep mode"
The monitor is hard to see.
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Bright light, such as direct sunlight, may cause vertical lines to appear
on the monitor screen. (Note that this does not affect recorded
pictures.)
Shutter button
Shutter button