Document Outline

• Structure of this manual
• Basic guide
  • Attaching the strap
  • Preparing the battery
  • Attaching a lens to the camera
  • Loading the card
  • Power on
  • Adjusting the viewfinder’s diopter
  • Setting the date/time
  • Shooting
    • When the camera stops operating
  • Playback/Erasing
    • Playing back images
    • Close-up playback
    • Erasing images
  • Table of Contents
• 1 Mastering the E-400
  • How to use the mode dial
    • Easy shooting modes
    • Advanced shooting modes
  • How to set the functions
    • How to make function settings
    • Setting functions using the control panel screen
    • Setting functions using direct buttons
    • Setting on the menu
    • Descriptions in this manual
• 2 Improving your shooting skills - Shooting guides
  • Basic function guides
    • Focus: Operating the shutter button
    • Brightness: Exposure compensation
    • Color: White balance
  • A guide to functions for different subjects
    • Taking landscape pictures
    • Taking flower pictures
    • Taking night scene pictures
• 3 Shooting functions
  • Selecting the appropriate mode for shooting conditions
    • Scene mode
    • P: Program shooting
    • A: Aperture priority shooting
    • S: Shutter priority shooting
    • M: Manual shooting
    • Preview function
  • Various shooting functions
    • If correct focus cannot be obtained (Focus lock)
    • AE bracketing
    • Flash shooting
      • Flash mode
      • Manual flash
      • Setting the flash mode
      • Using the built-in flash
      • Flash intensity control
      • External electronic flashes (optional)
      • Using the external electronic flash
      • Super FP flash
      • Using commercially available flashes
      • Non-specified commercial flashes
    • Single-frame shooting/sequential shooting
    • Self-timer shooting
    • Remote control shooting
  • Focusing functions
    • AF frame selection
    • Focus mode
      • S-AF (single AF) shooting
      • Simultaneous use of S-AF mode and MF mode (S-AF+MF)
      • C-AF (continuous AF) shooting
      • Simultaneous use of C-AF mode and MF mode (C-AF+MF)
      • Manual focus (MF)
  • Exposure, image and color
    • Selecting the record mode
      • Types of record modes
      • RAW data
      • How to select the record mode
      • SQ - Setting the number of pixels and compression rate
    • Metering mode - Changing the metering system
    • Exposure compensation - Varying the image brightness
    • AE lock - Locking the exposure
    • ISO - Setting the desired sensitivity to light
    • White balance - Adjusting the color tone
      • Setting the auto/preset/custom white balance
      • WB Compensation
      • Setting the one-touch white balance
    • Picture mode
    • Gradation
    • Noise reduction
    • Color space
• 4 Playback functions
  • Single-frame/Close-up playback
  • Index display/Calendar display
  • Information display
  • Slideshow
  • Rotating images
  • Playback on TV
  • Editing still images
  • Copying images
  • Protecting images - Preventing accidental erasure
    • Single-frame protect
    • Protecting selected frames
    • Canceling all protections
  • Erasing images
    • Single-frame erase
    • All-frame erase
    • Erasing selected frames
• 5 Customizing the settings/functions of your camera
  • Custom reset setting
  • AEL/AFL mode
  • Other function settings
• 6 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
• 7 Using the OLYMPUS Master software
  • Flowchart
  • Using the provided OLYMPUS Master software
    • What is OLYMPUS Master?
  • Connecting the camera to a computer
  • Starting OLYMPUS Master
  • Displaying the camera’s images on your computer
    • Downloading images to save on your computer
    • Disconnecting the camera from your computer
  • Viewing still images
  • Transferring images to your computer without using OLYMPUS Master
• 8 Getting to know your camera better
  • Shooting tips and information
    • Tips before you start taking pictures
    • Shooting tips
    • Additional shooting tips and information
    • Playback tips
    • Viewing pictures on a computer
  • When error messages are displayed
    • Error codes
    • Printing-related indications
  • Camera maintenance
    • Cleaning and storing the camera
    • Cleaning mode - Removing dust
    • Pixel mapping - Checking the image processing functions
• 9 Information
  • Card basics
    • Usable cards
    • Formatting the card
  • Battery and charger
  • Menu directory
  • Functions that can be set by shooting mode
  • List of record modes
  • Names of parts
    • Camera
    • Viewfinder indications
    • Control panel screen
    • LCD monitor indications (during playback)
  • Glossary
  • Specifications
• 10 Interchangeable lenses
  • Lens
  • ZUIKO DIGITAL interchangeable lens
• 11 Others
  • SAFETY PRECAUTIONS
  • Index