Ricoh 500SE - Manual (Page 45)

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Using the Skew Correction Mode
1
Turn the mode dial to 5.
2
Press the SCENE button.
• The scene mode selection screen appears.
3
Press the !" buttons to select [SKEW COR
MODE].
4
Press the MENU/OK button.
5
Press the shutter release button to shoot the
picture.
• The display indicates that the image is being corrected and the
area recognized as the correction range is displayed with an
orange frame. Up to five areas can be recognized.
• If the target area cannot be detected, an error message appears.
The image before correction remains recorded.
• To select another correction area, move the orange frame to the
target area by pressing the $ button.
• To cancel skew correction, press the ! button. Even if you
cancel skew correction, the image before skew correction
remains recorded.
6
Press the MENU/OK button.
• The display indicates that the image is being recorded and the
corrected image is recorded. The image before correction is also
recorded.
Caution-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
When [SKEW COR MODE] is selected, note the following:
• To shoot the subject as large as possible, position it so that the entire portion of the
subject is visible on the LCD monitor.
• The camera may fail to recognize the subject in the following cases:
• When the image is out of focus
• When four edges of the subject are not clearly visible
• When it is hard to distinguish between the subject and background
• When the background is complicated
• Two images, one before correction and the other after correction, are recorded. If the
number of remaining shots is less than two, you cannot shoot the subject.