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Camera Modes & Menus
Portrait Mode: The
first Scene mode on the Mode dial, this mode sets up the camera for
capturing portraits. By using a larger aperture setting, the camera
exposes the subject in sharp focus in front of a slightly blurred
background.
Sports Mode: Next in
line on the Mode dial, this mode biases the exposure system toward fast
shutter speeds to "freeze" action, perfect for sporting events or any
fast-moving subject.
Landscape Portrait Mode:
This mode is intended for portraits in front of scenery, where you want
both the foreground and background in focus. The camera uses a smaller
aperture setting to increase the depth of field.
Landscape Scene Mode:
Just like Landscape Portrait mode, this mode also uses a small aperture
to keep the foreground and background in focus. However, it also
enhances blue and green tones for more vibrant nature shots.
Night Mode: This mode
is best for capturing night portraits or night scenery, such as
cityscapes. A slower shutter speed lets more ambient light into the
image, but the exposure compensation and image contrast are dialed down
somewhat, preserving color in neon signs or sunsets.
Self-Portrait Mode:
This mode lets you take a picture of yourself by holding the
camera in front of you.
Movie Mode:
Accessed by turning the Mode dial to the movie camera symbol, Movie
mode allows you to capture movies with or without sound for as long as
the memory card allows.
My Mode: Sets up
the camera according to a set of user-defined camera settings, specific
to shooting conditions. A huge range of exposure variables such as
aperture, shutter speed, white balance, etc. can all be saved. You can
even save the lens zoom position. My Mode settings are made through the
Setup menu.
Aperture Priority: Lets you select the desired lens aperture (in 1/3-stop (EV) increments, from f/2.8 to f/8), while the camera adjusts the shutter speed to achieve the correct exposure. If the required shutter speed is beyond the camera's capabilities, the shutter speed / aperture status numbers in the LCD will flash red.
Shutter Priority: Lets you select the desired shutter speed (in 1/3 EV increments, from 1/1,000 to four seconds), while the camera adjusts the aperture to achieve the correct exposure. If the required aperture is beyond the camera's capabilities, the shutter speed / aperture status numbers in the LCD will flash red.
Manual Mode: Lets you select both the desired aperture (f/2.8 to f/8) and shutter speed (1/1,000 to 16 seconds) settings. The onscreen display that normally shows exposure compensation adjustments becomes an exposure meter, showing the amount of under- or overexposure the settings you've selected will result in. If the amount of over or underexposure exceeds +/- 3 EV units, the settings displayed on the LCD screen turn red instead of green, and the display remains at -3 or +3 EV.
Programmed Exposure: The camera selects both shutter speed and
lens aperture, based on existing light conditions and certain camera
functions. For example, it uses a faster shutter speed when the lens is
in the telephoto position and a slower shutter speed when the lens is
in the wide-angle position.
Playback Mode: This mode allows you to view previously captured
images using the Arrow Pad to scroll through frames stored in memory.
The Zoom Lever switches the image display to Index mode when moved in
the wide-angle direction, and enlarges a single image when moved in the
telephoto direction, by zooming in to a maximum of 4x magnification.
While zoomed in on an image, the Arrow buttons can be used to move the
enlarged view around the full image area, allowing you to inspect all
parts of it.
Auto Mode: In this mode, the camera controls the entire exposure,
with you only able to adjust the digital and optical zoom, and access the
drive and macro settings.
Camera Menus
Shooting
Menus
When the Menu / OK button is pressed in any shooting mode, the menu screens
shown below appear. Menu options vary depending on the actual shooting mode.
Depending on the shooting mode you're in and whether you've chosen to reassign
their functions or not, three of the top-level menu items are Short Cuts
to menu options controlling by default (clockwise from the bottom) White
Balance, Image Size/Quality, and Aperture/Shutter/Manual (or Self-Timer in
Program mode) exposure control. The fourth option takes you to the main Mode
Menu itself. Since the destinations of the short cut options are simply sub-levels
inside the main mode menu, I'll only show the main Mode Menu screens here.
- Mode Menu
- Camera:
Self-Timer/Remote
Control: Turns the 12-second self-timer mode on or
off, and accesses the Remote Control mode for use with
the included IR remote. - Drive: Sets the camera's capture mode to Single, Sequence, AF Sequence, or Auto Bracketing capture modes.
- ISO: Sets the camera's ISO sensitivity to Auto, 50, 80, 160, or 320.
- A/S/M: (A/S/M mode only.) Sets the exposure mode to Aperture Priority, Shutter Speed Priority, or Manual.
- Flash Intensity (+/-): Adjusts
the flash intensity from -2 to +2 EV in one-third-step
increments.
Flash: Sets
the camera's flash system to Internal + External or External
only. - Slow Synchro: Selects between Slow Synchro 1, Slow Synchro with Red-Eye Reduction, and Slow Synchro 2. The Slow Synchro modes combine the flash with long shutter times, to allow more of the ambient light to influence the exposure. Slow synchro 1 & 2 differ in that 2 fires the flash at the end of the shutter period (second curtain sync), while 1 fires it at the beginning (first curtain sync).
- Noise Reduction: When turned on, this function reduces the image noise in long exposures.
- Digital Zoom: Turns the Digital Zoom function On or Off.
- Super Macro: Turns Super Macro mode on or off,
which extends the Macro focus range to distances as small
as 1.6 inches or 4.0 centimeters.
Panorama: Activates
the Panorama shooting mode. (Available in P/A/S/M modes
only, and only with Olympus-branded xD-Picture Cards.)
- 2 in 1: Enables "2 in 1" mode, which captures two individual images and saves them as one split-screen image.
- Function: Lets you select between Black-and-White and Sepia color modes.
- AF Area: Lets you specify the actual AF spot area from among the nine available, using the arrow keys.
- Info: Turns on an additional shooting information
display on the LCD monitor, or disables it.
Picture:
- Quality: Sets the camera's image quality to SQ1 (Standard Quality), with a choice of 2,272 x 1,704; 2,048 x 1,536; or 1,600 x 1,200-pixel resolutions, High or Normal compression ratio; SQ2 (Standard Quality 2), with a choice of 1,280 x 960; 1,024 x 768; or 640 x 480-pixel resolutions, High or Normal compression ratio; HQ (High Quality, 2,560 x 1,920 pixels); SHQ (Super High Quality, 2,560 x 1,920 pixels); or TIFF (Uncompressed TIFF), with a choice of 2,560 x 1,920-, 2,272 x 1,704-, 2,048 x 1,536-, or 1,600 x 1,200-, 1,280 x 960-, 1,024 x 768-, or 640 x 480-pixel resolution. (Movie options are HQ 320 x 240 pixels or SQ 160 x 120 pixels.)
- White Balance (WB): Sets the camera's white balance to Auto, Preset (Daylight, Cloudy, Incandescent, Daylight Fluorescent, Neutral Fluorescent, or Cool Fluorescent), or Manual white balance options.
- White Balance Adjustment: Enables you to adjust the Blue and Red levels from +7 (blue) to -7 (red, arbitrary units).
- Sharpness: Sets the picture sharpness from +2 to -2 (arbitrary units).
- Contrast: Sets the picture contrast from +2 to -2 (arbitrary units).
- Saturation: Adjusts the color saturation from +2
to -2 (arbitrary units).
Card:
- Card setup: Formats the xD-Picture Card, erasing
all images, even the write-protected or Locked images.
- Card setup: Formats the xD-Picture Card, erasing
all images, even the write-protected or Locked images.
- Set Up:
All Reset:
Resets the camera to its default settings whenever it's
turned off and back on again. - Language: Changes the menu language to English, German, French, or Spanish.
- PW on/off Setup: Determines what picture is displayed on the LCD screen at startup and shutdown.
- Rec View: Turns Rec View On or Off. Rec View displays the most recently recorded image while it is being written to the xD-Picture Card.
- Volume: Sets the camera's beep sound to Off, Low,
or High.
Sleep:
Sets the camera to go to sleep after 30 seconds, or 1,
3, 5, or 10 minutes of inactivity. - My Mode Setup: Customizes the specific user settings for the My Mode settings.
- File Name: Lets you choose between Auto or Name Reset for recording file names. Name Reset resets the file numbering whenever a new xD-Picture Card is inserted, while Auto continues the numbering scheme across cards.
- Pixel Mapping: Initiates automatic pixel mapping, which checks for bad pixels in the CCD and maps them out. (Bad pixels shouldn't appear very often, and Olympus only recommends running this function once a year.)
- LCD Brightness: Adjusts monitor brightness using
an on-screen scale.
Date and Time:
Sets the camera's internal calendar and clock. - Meters / Feet: Allows you to choose between feet and meters for distance measurement.
- Video Out: Specifies NTSC or PAL as the video out signal.
- Short Cut: Enables you to set the three short cut menu items to whatever main menu options you want them to represent.
- Custom Button: Enables you to set the Custom button
to whatever menu item you want it to represent.
Playback Mode
Playback Mode is available by turning to the green Playback symbol on
the camera's Mode dial, or by depressing the Quick View button in any
Shooting mode. The Playback Top Menu has three options, which differ
slightly between Shooting (Record) playback and Movie playback:
Still Playback:
Info:
Changes the amount of exposure information that is displayed with each
recorded image. Full information includes battery power (shown only
if the batteries are low), image quality, resolution, shutter speed,
aperture, exposure compensation, white balance, ISO, and file number.
Minimum information includes only the frame number, battery power, and
quality setting. Movie files display only the file number until you
select the Movie Playback option. - Slide Show: Sets up the camera to run an automatic slide show playback of all single-frame recorded images.
- DPOF: Accesses the camera's DPOF settings, letting you designate images for printing, as well as the number of copies and whether or not the date and time print with the image.
- Movie Play: This replaces the Play option in the Playback mode's
top menu during movie playback:
- Movie Playback:
- Playback: Plays back the movie file.
- Index: Brings up a 9-image index of individual
frames from the movie, saved as a separate still-image
file.
- Movie Playback:
- Mode Menu: Brings up three Playback sub-menus:
Edit:
- Reduce Size: Decreases the resolution of the
current image. The resized image is saved as a separate
file, leaving the original undisturbed. (A second
screen gives you options for the size of the final
file.)
- Reduce Size: Decreases the resolution of the
current image. The resized image is saved as a separate
file, leaving the original undisturbed. (A second
screen gives you options for the size of the final
file.)
Card:
- Card Setup: Allows you to erase all images
on the xD-Picture Card, except write-protected files,
or format the xD-Picture Card, erasing all images,
even the write-protected images.
- Card Setup: Allows you to erase all images
on the xD-Picture Card, except write-protected files,
or format the xD-Picture Card, erasing all images,
even the write-protected images.
Setup:
- All Reset: Resets the camera to its default settings or to set your own custom default settings.
- Language: Changes the menu language to English, German, French, or Spanish.
- PW on/off Setup: Determines what picture is displayed on the LCD screen at startup and shutdown.
- Volume: Sets the camera's beep sound to Off, Low, or High.
- LCD Brightness: Adjusts monitor brightness using an on-screen scale.
- Date and Time: Sets the camera's internal calendar and clock.
- Video Out: Designates the video signal as PAL or NTSC.
- Index Display: Allows you to set the index
display to four, nine, or 16 frames.
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