Flash intensity control – Olympus SP-500 UZ User Manual

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Flash shooting

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3

Press the shutter button halfway.

• In conditions where the flash will fire, the

# mark lights (flash stand-by).

4

Press the shutter button fully to

take the picture.

You can adjust the amount of light emitted by the flash.
In some situations, you may get better results by adjusting the light emission.
Examples include small subjects, distant backgrounds, or situations when increased
contrast is desired.

Top menu

[MODE MENU]

[CAMERA]

[w]

g“Using the menus” (P. 17)

1

Press sr to adjust the flash

intensity, and press

Z.

TIPS

The

# (flash charge) mark blinks.

j Flash charging. Wait until the # mark turns off.

Note

• The flash does not fire in the following situations:

High-speed sequential shooting, auto bracketing, super macro shooting,
and panorama shooting.

• The flash may not give you the optimum result in macro mode with the zoom

set to wide-angle (W). Check the resulting picture on the monitor.

Flash intensity control

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1600

1600×1200

1200

SQ1

SQ1

F4.0

F4.0

1/200

1/200

0.0

0.0

# mark

0.0

DIGITAL ZOOM

SET

PIC

CAMERA

MEM

SYNCRO

FLASH

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