User manual MINOLTA DIMAGE EX

[. . . ] Digital Camera E Camera Instruction Manual TABLE OF CONTENTS Thank you for purchasing this Minolta product. Your new digital camera has extraordinary features that expand your image capturing horizons. · Megapixel (1. 5 million pixels), progressive scan Sony Wfine CCDTM with primary colour filter. · High quality 2 inch colour LCD monitor with Live View display. · DigitaTM Operating Environment from FlashPoint Technology. [. . . ] The Done soft key enters the new settings, but returns the camera to the Play Settings menu without running the slide show. Stop the slide show by pressing the Stop Slideshow soft key in the Play screen. 70 71 P L AY M E N U S PLAYBACK RATE Set the playback rate for the Play button (p. The playback rate is set for each image type; Burst, Timelapse, and Group. The rate can be selected between 1 and 10 seconds. In Play mode, press the menu button. · The Play Settings menu will appear. REVIEW MODE Press the Up or Down button to highlight Playback Rate, then Press the Edit soft key. · The Playback Rate screen will appear. Press the Up or Down button to select the image type. Press the Left or Right button to select the rate. Press the Exit soft key. REVIEW 73 · The settings will be entered and the camera will return to the Play Settings menu. · Press the Default soft key to set the rate for all image types to 3 seconds. 72 REVIEWING/SELECTING IMAGES Review mode makes it fast and easy to review the images on the compact flash card by displaying mini previews of the images. This mode also allows the images to be categorized or marked. REVIEWING/SELECTING IMAGES Reviewing/Selecting Images Turn the camera on. Review Mode Screen Small thumbnails Pointer While pressing the lock button, slide the mode switch to REV. · The Review screen will appear on the LCD monitor. Arrow Large thumbnail (selected image) Category icon (p. 60) Press the Left and Right buttons to scroll through the thumbnails. · The pointer remains stationary while the small thumbnails scroll across the screen. Capture date and time Soft key label Capture type display Still Image (p. 86) Find: This icon appears when Find is selected (pp. Protect: This icon appears with protected images (p. Camera name display Group name display These icons may appear in the bottom-right of the monitor. Select an image by scrolling through the thumbnails until the pointer is below the desired image and its large thumbnail is displayed. · Once an image is selected, it can be catagorized, grouped, protected, deleted, or marked. 74 75 REVIEW When performing functions, marked images receive priority over selected images. MARKING IMAGES Marked images have a `notch' on the bottom right corner. Mark multiple images to perform one of the following actions on them: Category p. 91 MARKING IMAGES UNMARK / UNMARK ALL Press the Left or Right button to select the desired image. MARK / MARK ALL Press the Left or Right button to select the desired image. Press the Unmark soft key. · The notch will disappear from the bottomright corner of the thumbnail. · Unmarking the first image in a collapsed group will unmark the entire group. Press the Mark soft key. · A notch will appear at the bottom-right corner of the thumbnail. · Marking the first image in a collapsed group will mark the entire group. Unmark all marked images by holding down the Unmark soft key for about 3 seconds, until the soft key label changes to Unmark All. Mark all the images in the camera by holding the Mark soft key down for about 3 seconds, until the soft key label changes to Mark All. 76 77 REVIEW CATEGORY The Category function allows you to add images to preset categories, represented by icons. A single, selected image can be added to a category or a set of marked images can be categorized. An image can belong to only one category. CATEGORY REMOVING IMAGES FROM A CATEGORY Remove a single image from a category. Select an image (p. Press the Category soft key. · The Categories menu appears. Press the Category soft key. · The Categories menu appears. Use the Up and Down buttons to scroll through the category icons. Use the Up and Down buttons to highlight the checked category. · The and marks indicate there are more menu items out of view. Press the Up or Down buttons to view the items. Press the Unselect soft key. Press the Select soft key to select the highlighted category. · A mark appears next to the selected category, then the image(s) will be assigned to the new category and the camera will return to the Review mode screen. · The Category icon for each image appears in the Review mode screen. · The mark disappears then the image will be removed from the category and the camera will return to the Review screen. 78 79 REVIEW A progress bar may appear if many images are being categorized. EXPAND/COLLAPSE - OPEN/CLOSE Burst, Timelapse, and Group images are represented in the Review screen by a single thumbnail image. [. . . ] Wait until the flash is charged, and then press the shutter button to take the photograph. above twice. · This differs from the Bracketing (see P56 of the User's Manual) in that the shutter is pressed three times for each series of three exposures. · When flash bracketing is selected, the numbers at the right of the overlay bar indicate whether the next photograph is the 1st, 2nd, or 3rd of the three frames. · Use flash bracketing only after checking that the BUSY lamp is extinguished. [. . . ]