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Before you begin For proper and safe use Thank you for purchasing this digital camera. Please take the time to read through this instruction Read and understand all warnings and cautions before using this product. manual so you can enjoy all the features of your new camera. Check the packing list before using this product. If any items are missing, immediately contact your camera dealer. WARNING Using batteries improperly can cause them to leak harmful solutions, overheat, or explode which DiMAG
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CAUTION • Keep batteries or small parts that could be swallowed away from infants. Contact a doctor imme- • Do not point the lens directly at the sun, a fire may result. Replace the lens cap when the camera diately if an object is swallowed. is not in use. • Store this product out of reach of children. Be careful when around children not to harm them with • Do not use or store the product in a hot or humid environment such as the glove compartment or the product or parts. trunk of a car. It may
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Viewing and rotating images...................................................................................................31 About this manual Deleting single images ............................................................................................................31 + The basic operation of this camera is covered between pages 12 and 33. This section of the manual i button ..............................................................................................................
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Color mode..............................................................................................................................65 Shutter FX................................................................................................................................97 Contrast...................................................................................................................................65 Volume........................................................................
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Names of parts * This camera is a sophisticated optical instrument. Care should be taken to keep these surfaces clean. Please read the care and storage instructions in the back of this manual (p. 122). Accessory shoe (p. 43) Exposure-mode dial (p. 21, 29, 36 - 40) Diopter-adjustment Macro button (p. 35) dial (p. 17) Shutter-release button Flash (p. 26) Flash-mode button (p. 26) Speaker Viewfinder* (p. 17) Zoom lever (p. 20) Microphone LCD monitor* Strap eyelet (p. 12) Controller Menu button U
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Inserting batteries GETTING UP AND RUNNING This digital camera uses four AA-size alkaline or Ni-MH batteries. Do not use other types of AA bat- Attaching the strap and lens cap teries. The camera should be off when replacing batteries. Always keep the strap around your neck in the event that the camera is accidentally dropped. An optional leather neck strap, NS-DG1000, is also available from your Konica Minolta dealer. 2 Availability varies with region. To open the battery-chamber door, slide t
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Battery condition indicator Connecting the optional AC adapter This camera is equipped with an automatic battery-condition indicator. When the camera is on, the battery-condition indicator appears on the monitor. If the monitor is blank, the batteries may be Always turn off the camera before changing between power supplies. exhausted or installed incorrectly. The AC Adapter AC-11 allows the camera to be Full-battery indicator - the battery is fully charged. This indicator is displayed for power
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Changing the memory card Turning on the camera and displays An SD Memory Card or MultiMediaCard must be inserted for the camera to operate. If a card has Press the main switch to turn the camera on. Pressing the switch again turns not been inserted, a no-card warning is displayed on the monitor. For more about memory cards the camera off. see page 126. When the camera is turned on, the Anti-Shake indicator appears on the LCD monitor. Always turn off the camera and confirm the access lamp is not
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Setting the date and time Setting the Menu language After initially inserting a memory card and batteries, the For customers in certain areas, the menu language may have camera’s clock and calendar must be set. When images are to be set. Press the menu button (1) to open the menu; the recorded, the image data is saved with the date and time of appearance of the menu will depend on the position of the recording. camera’s controls. 2 If the clock and calendar have not been set, a message is Naviga
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Recording images automatically BASIC RECORDING Turn the exposure-mode dial to the auto-recording position (1); all camera This section covers the basic operation of this camera. Thoroughly operations are now fully automatic. The autofocus, exposure, and imaging familiarize yourself with the operations in this section before moving systems will work together to bring beautiful results effortlessly. on to the other sections in the manual. While many of the camera’s systems in this mode are automat
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Basic recording operation Automatic Digital Subject Program Selection The example uses auto recording. Except for movie recording, the operation for Automatic Digital Program Selection chooses between program autoexposure and one of four digi- other exposure modes is the same. Automatic Digital Subject Program Selection is tal subject programs. The digital subject programs optimize camera settings for various conditions only available in the auto recording mode. and subjects. Automatic Digital S
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Focus lock Focus signals Focus lock prevents the AF system from focusing. This can be used with off-center subjects or The focus signal in the lower right corner of the LCD monitor indicates the focus status. The shutter when a special focusing situation prevents the camera from focusing (p. 25). can be released even if the camera cannot focus on the subject. Place the subject within the focus frame. Press and hold the Focus locked. shutter-release button partway down. • The focus signal indica
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Flash modes Flash range - auto-recording mode 1 To use the built-in flash, simply raise it (1). Lower the flash unit The camera controls the flash output automatically. For well-exposed images, the subject must be to prevent it from firing. Flash-mode indicator turns red while within the flash range. Distance is given from the front of the lens. Because of the optical system, the flash is charging; wait until it becomes white before taking the flash range is not the same at the lens’ wide-angle
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+ Digital subject programs i button + Pressing the information (i ) button changes the monitor display. The display cycles among the stan- Digital subject programs optimize the cam- dard display, real-time histogram, and live image only. era’s exposure, white-balance, and image- processing systems for specific conditions and subjects. Simply turn the exposure mode dial to select the appropriate subject pro- gram; the active subject program is displayed in the bottom left corner of the monitor. E
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The histogram shows the luminance distribution of the image from black (left) to white (right). The BASIC PLAYBACK 256 vertical lines indicates the relative proportion of that light value in the image. The histogram can Images can be viewed in the Quick View or playback modes. be used to evaluate exposure, but displays no color information. This section covers the basic operations in both modes. The playback mode has additional functions, see page 70. Viewing and rotating images To view images
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+ Enlarged playback i button + The information (i ) button controls the display format. Each time the button is pressed, the display In single-frame playback in Quick View or the playback mode, a still image can be enlarged for clos- cycles through to the next format: full display, image only, index playback. er examination from 1.2X. The maximum magnification depends on image size ranging from 2X for 640x480 size images to 4.4X for 2816x2112 images. Full display With the image to be magnified d
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Macro ADVANCED RECORDING Two macro modes are available: Super Macro and standard This section cover the advanced recording features of this camera. Read the basic recording sec- macro. Super Macro allows the camera to focus as close as tion before moving on to this section. 1cm (0.4 in.) from the front of the lens. When Super Macro is selected, the lens automatically zooms to a specific focal- Recording mode display length position and cannot be changed. Standard macro allows the zoom to be used
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Program (P) Exposure mode Shutter priority (S) Exposure mode The program exposure mode controls both the shutter speed and aperture to The photographer selects the shutter speed and the camera sets the appropriate ensure correct exposures. This exposure mode allows photographers to shoot aperture to ensure correct exposure. When shutter priority is selected, the shutter without worry about exposure settings. The shutter speed and aperture values of speed on the monitor turns blue and a double ar
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Manual (M) Exposure mode Noise reduction Manual exposure mode allows individual selection of shutter speeds and aper- Noise can be apparent when using a slow shutter speed or high cam- tures. This mode overrides the exposure system giving the photographer total con- era sensitivity (ISO), or using the camera in hot environment. In these trol over the final exposure. cases, noise-reduction is applied to the image automatically. A mes- Processing... sage appears on the LCD monitor if the noise-red
