User manual SAMSUNG ST90

[. . . ] This user manual includes detailed usage instructions for your camera. Please read this manual thoroughly. Click a topic Basic troubleshooting User Manual ST90/ST91 Quick reference Contents Basic functions Extended functions Shooting options Playback/Editing Settings Appendixes Index Health and safety information Always comply with the following precautions and usage tips to avoid dangerous situations and ensure peak performance of your camera. Warning--situations that could cause injury to yourself or others Keep your camera away from small children and pets. Keep your camera and all accessories out of the reach of small children and animals. Small parts may cause choking or serious injury if swallowed. [. . . ] Fish-eye Sketch Classic: Apply a black and white effect. 1 2 3 In Shooting mode, press [ ]. Retro: Apply a sepia tone effect. Custom RGB: Customize a color value. Select Shooting or Movie Smart Filter. Select an effect. Shooting options 55 Improving your photos Available filters in Movie mode Option Description Normal: No effect. Palette Effect 1: Create a vivid look with sharp contrast and red color. Palette Effect 2: Making scenes clean and clear by applying a soft blue tone. Palette Effect 3: Apply a soft brown tone. Palette Effect 4: Create a cold and monotone effect. Miniature: Apply a tilt-shift effect to make the subject appear in miniature. Vignetting: Apply the retro-looking colors, high contrast, and strong vignette effect of Lomo cameras. Fish-eye: Distort close objects to imitate the visual effect of a fisheye lens. Classic: Apply a black and white effect. Custom RGB: Customize a color value. · If you select Miniature when you are recording a video, the speed of the video playing time will increase. · If you select Miniature when you are recording a video, the camera will not record sound. · If you select Miniature, Vignetting, Fish-eye or Defog while recording a video, the recording speed will be set to and the recording resolution will be set to less than . · If you set Smart Filter effects, you cannot use the Face Recognition options, ACB, burst options, Image Adjustment options, Intelli zoom or Tracking AF. · When you select Sketch, the resolution will change to and below. Shooting options 56 Improving your photos Defining your own RGB tone 1 2 3 In Shooting mode, press [ ]. Select Shooting or Movie Smart Filter Custom RGB. Select a color (R: Red, G: Green, B: Blue). Back Move 4 5 Adjust the amount of the selected color. (-: less or +: more) Select [ ]. Shooting options 57 Improving your photos Adjusting your photos Adjust the contrast, sharpness, and saturation of your photos. Saturation option + Description Decrease the saturation. Increase the saturation. 1 2 3 4 In Shooting mode, press [ ]. Select Shooting Image Adjust. Select an adjustment option. · Contrast · Sharpness · Saturation · Select 0 if you do not want to apply any effects (suitable for printing). · If you use this function, you cannot set the face recognition and smart filter options. Select a value to adjust the selected item. Contrast option + Sharpness option + Description Decrease the color and brightness. Increase the color and brightness. Description Soften the edges on your photos. [. . . ] Noise usually occurs when photos are shot with a high sensitivity or when a sensitivity is automatically set in a dark place. Vignetting A reduction of an image's brightness or saturation at the periphery (outer edges) compared to the center of the image. Vignetting can draw interest to subjects positioned in the center of an image. Optical zoom This is a general zoom which can enlarge images with a lens and does not deteriorate quality of images. White balance (color balance) An adjustment of the intensities of colors (typically the primary colors red, green, and blue), in an image. The goal of adjusting the white balance, or color balance, is to correctly render the colors in an image. Quality An expression of the rate of compression used in a digital image. Higher quality images have a lower rate of compression, which usually results in a larger file size. Resolution The number of pixels present in a digital image. [. . . ]