User manual KONICA MINOLTA MAXXUM7D

[. . . ] Konica Minolta Customer Support: www. konicaminoltasupport. com Konica Minolta Photo World: www. konicaminoltaphotoworld. com Become a member of the Konica Minolta Photo World today. It is free for registered customers of Konica Minolta. Register now, save 29. 99 EUR, get DiMAGE Messenger for free! © 2005 Konica Minolta Photo Imaging, Inc. under the Berne Convention and the Universal Copyright Convention. 9979 2181 50 0205/12984 Printed in Germany E INSTRUCTION MANUAL BEFORE YOU BEGIN Thank you for purchasing this Konica Minolta digital camera. Please take the time to read through this instruction manual so you can enjoy all the features of your new camera. [. . . ] The access lamp glows when an image is being recorded. Use the up/down keys or front control dial to select the parameter to change. Use the left/right keys or rear control dial to adjust the parameter. Press the central button of the controller to complete the operation. Confirm the recording menu settings, highlight the start option, and press the central button of the controller to put the camera in the interval recording mode. Interval 30s - 60min Interval No. 2 No delay :enter 1 min The camera stops recording and resets to the first frame when the series is complete or when the memory card is full. The use of an AC adapter is recommended when recording with long intervals or a large number of frames. To cancel the interval series, turn off the camera or press the shutterrelease button partway down. Inst. Playback Setup Noise reductn Interval Setup Start The interval indicator appears on the monitor. After mounting the camera on a tripod, compose the image so that the subject area falls within the focus frames; the camera sets the focus, exposure, and white balance, and charges the flash just before each exposure. Interval indicator 78 Recording menu 79 A SHORT GUIDE TO PHOTOGRAPHY Photography can be a rewarding pursuit. It is a broad and disciplined field that can take years to master. But the pleasure in making photographs and the joy of capturing a magical moment cannot be compared. The guide is an introduction to some basic photographic principles. LIGHT SOURCES AND COLOR The human eye adapts itself extremely well under different conditions. The paper of this manual you are reading looks white regardless of the type of lighting. Photographic systems are much less flexible. As the light source changes, so does the overall color of a scene - fluorescent office ceiling lights create a green cast to pictures, regular household tungsten light bulbs make everything red. Like your eyes, the camera's white-balance controls adjust for different lighting to make natural looking pictures. The most common source of light, our sun, changes color depending on the time of day and the atmospheric conditions. The sun is of course very warm near the horizon and very blue at noon. The daylight preset white-balance setting is for beautiful sunny days. When the weather is overcast, the color is cooler and the cloudy setting is appropriate. When the main light source is skylight, light from the blue sky rather than the direct light of the sun, the resulting color is very blue. The shade preset white-balance is designed for this condition. [. . . ] If the contacts become dirty, wipe them with a cotton swab. 142 Care and storage 143 TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS Number of effective pixels: CCD: Camera sensitivity (ISO): Aspect ratio: A/D conversion: Autofocusing system: AF sensitivity range: Meter: Metering range: Shutter: Flash guide number: Flash sync. : Flash coverage: Built-in flash recycling time: Viewfinder: Field of view: Eye relief: Viewfinder magnification: Monitor LCD: Recording media: File formats: PRINT Image Matching III: Menu languages: Video output: 144 6. 1 million 23. 5 X 15. 7mm interline primary-color CCD with a total of 6. 3 million pixels Auto, 100, 200, 400, 800, 1600, 3200 ISO equivalents 3:2 12 bit TTL phase-detection system with CCD line sensor. Ev -1 ~ +18 (at ISO 100) 14-segment honeycomb-pattern SPC Ev ±0 ~ +20 (Spot: Ev +3 ~ +20) at ISO 100, /1. 4. Electronically-controlled, vertical-traverse, focalplane shutter 12 (in meters at ISO 100) 1/125s with Anti-Shake, 1/160s without Anti-Shake Equal to a 24mm focal-length lens 3s (approx. ) Eye-level fixed glass pentaprism. 95% (approx. ) Approximately 25mm from the eyepiece or 21mm from the eyepiece cup at -1 diopter. [. . . ]