Additional shooting tips and information – Olympus 840 User Manual
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• It is effective to set the exposure compensation to [+] by pressing
1 F when shooting
against strong backlighting.
1 F button Changing picture brightness (Exposure Compensation)” (P.17)
• Adjusting exposure of person’s face by setting [AF MODE] to [FACE DETECT] makes the
subject’s face appear brighter even against strong backlighting.
g “AF MODE Changing the focusing area” (P.28)
There are two ways to record the pictures you take with this camera.
Recording pictures to the internal memory
• Pictures are recorded to the internal memory, and when the number of storable still
pictures reaches 0, you must connect the camera to a computer to download the pictures,
and then erase the pictures from the internal memory.
Using a card (xD-Picture Card) (optional)
• Pictures are recorded to the card inserted in the camera. When the card is full,you download the
pictures to a computer, and then either erase the pictures from the card or use a new card.
• Pictures are not recorded to the internal memory when a card is inserted in the camera.
Pictures in the internal memory can be copied to the card using the [BACKUP] function.
g “BACKUP Copying pictures in the internal memory to the card” (P.34)
Number of storable still pictures and recording length of movies
Still pictures
Movie
Additional shooting tips and information
Increasing the number of pictures that can be taken
IMAGE SIZE
COMPRE-
SSION
Number of storable still pictures
Internal memory
Using a 1 GB card
With sound Without sound With sound Without sound
G
3264X2448
3
3
253
255
7
7
492
499
H
2560X1920
5
6
404
410
12
12
820
841
I
2048X1536
9
9
615
627
18
19
1254
1305
J
1600X1200
15
15
1031
1066
29
31
1938
2063
K
1280X960
23
24
1560
1640
43
47
2907
3198
C
640X480
75
90
4920
5815
122
164
7996
10661
D
1920X1080
14
14
954
984
27
28
1827
1938
IMAGE SIZE
FRAME
RATE
Continuous recording length
Internal memory
Using a 1 GB card
C
640X480
N
8 sec.
10 sec.
O
16 sec.
18 min. 37 sec.
E
320X240
N
19 sec.
22 min. 3 sec.
O
38 sec.
29 min.