User manual NIKON COOLPIX 775

[. . . ] Product Documentation The documentation for this product includes the manuals listed below. Please be sure to read all instructions thoroughly to get the most from your camera. Quick-Start Guide The Quick-Start Guide takes you through the process of unpacking and setting up your Nikon digital camera, taking your first pictures, and transferring them to your computer. Guide to Digital Photography The Guide to Digital Photography (this manual) provides complete operating instructions for your camera. [. . . ] Use when light is coming from behind your subject, throwing their features into shadow, or when your subject is in the shade but the background is brightly lit. The flash will fire automatically to illuminate ("fill in") shadows. Main subject stands out clearly and background details are softened, lending composition sense of depth. Degree to which background details are softened depends on amount of light available. Backlight Auto or Portrait Any Auto or * Slow sync with red-eye reduction For more information on: 92 86 Flash mode Focus mode 82 Mode When to Use It Flash Mode Focus Mode Reference­Beyond Point-and-Shoot Night Portrait Use for pictures that provide a natural balance between the main subject and the background when taking portraits against a backdrop of night-time scenAuto AUTO * ery. Shutter speed is slowed to capture or UT background lighting, making pictures more susceptible to blurring. Use a tripod to steady the camera or support the camera steadily in both hands with your elbows against your torso. Use for vivid landscape photos that enhance outlines, colors, and contrast in Landscape such subjects as skyscapes and forests. or Beach/ Snow Vividly captures the brightness of such subjects as snowfields, beaches, or sunlit expanses of water. Any Any Sunset Ca ptures the beautiful reds in sunsets or sunrises exactly as you see them. Record silent movies 320 × 240 pixels in size (QVGA). Recording begins when shutter-release button is pressed all the way down and ends when shutter-release button is fully pressed a second time. In place of number of exposures remaining, exposure count display in monitor shows length of movie that can be recorded. Movie ends automatically after 15 s or when no more space is available on memory card. Movies are stored as Quick Time movie files with names ending in ". MOV". Auto or or Auto Movie 83 Framing Pictures: Optical and Digital Zoom Your Nikon digital camera offers two kinds of zoom: optical zoom, in which the camer a's telescoping lens can be used to magnify the subject up to 3 ×, and digital zoom, in which digital processing is used to further magnify the image up to 2. 5 ×. Optical Zoom Photos can be framed in the viewfinder or monitor using the zoom buttons. Indicator in monitor displays amount of zoom while either button is pressed Zoom out Zoom in NORMAL NORMAL [ 10 ] 10 Reference­Beyond Point-and-Shoot Digital Zoom At the maximum zoom position, holding the T button down for two seconds triggers digital zoom. X2. 5 X2. 5 NORMAL [ 10 ] Maximum optical zoom position Hold for 2 s NORMAL NORMAL [ 10 ] 10 Zoom factor displayed in monitor Green light blinks slowly to show that photos can not be accurately framed in viewfinder While digital zoom is in effect, the zoom factor increases each time the T button is pressed, to a maximum of 2. 5 ×. Pressing the W button decreases the zoom factor. To cancel digital zoom, press the W button until the zoom indicator disappears. 84 Optical vs. Digital Zoom Reference­Beyond Point-and-Shoot In digital zoom, data from the camera's image sensor are processed digitally, enlarging the center portion of the image to fill the frame. Unlike optical zoom, digital zoom does not increase the amount of detail visible in the picture. Instead, details visible at maximum zoom are enlarged, producing a slightly "grainy" image . Digital zoom also differs from optical zoom in that its effects are visible only in the monitor, not the viewfinder, meaning that the monitor must be on before digital zoom can be used. Restrictions on Digital Zoom As noted above, digital zoom can only be used when the monitor is on. Digital zoom is not available in movie mode. 85 Focusing Near and Far :The Focus-Mode Button By default, the camera adjusts focus automatically for subjects 30 cm (1´) or more from the lens, which is ideal for snapshots. Under some circumstances, however, you may want to force the camera to focus on distant objects rather than on the closest object visible in the center of the frame--for example, when photographing a distant landscape through a screen of branches or when taking a shot through a window. Or you may want the camera to focus on something closer than 30 cm--for example, to create a close-up of a flower or business card. Your Nikon digital camera offers focus modes for both situations. [. . . ] 82-83 Self-timer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90-91 Self-timer lamp . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Numbers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115 SET-UP menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22, 110-119 Sharpening. [. . . ]