Olympus 1200 User Manual
Instruction manual, Quick start guide
DIGITAL CAMERA
Instruction
Manual
Getting to know your
camera better
Quick Start Guide
Get started using your
camera right away.
Button operations
Menu operations
Printing pictures
Using OLYMPUS Master
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read these instructions carefully to enjoy optimum performance and a longer service life. Keep this manual
in a safe place for future reference.
( We recommend that you take test shots to get accustomed to your camera before taking important
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information contained in this manual.
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Document Outline
- Quick Start Guide
- Button operations
- Turning the camera on and off
- Shooting pictures
- Switching between shooting and playback modes
- Arrow pad
- button (OK/FUNC)
- Displaying the top menu
- Zooming while shooting/close-up playback
- Changing picture brightness (Exposure compensation)
- Flash shooting
- Self-timer shooting
- Shooting pictures close to the subject (Macro)
- Viewing pictures/Printing pictures
- Brightening the subject against backlight/Erasing pictures
- Changing the information/display on the LCD monitor
- Menu operations
- About the menus
- Operation guide
- Using the menus
- Shooting mode menu
- Changing the image quality
- Restoring default settings
- Taking and combining panoramic pictures
- Selecting a scene mode according to the shooting situation
- CAMERA MENU
- Adjusting the color of a picture
- Changing the ISO sensitivity
- Using sequential (continuous) shooting
- Zooming in on your subject without reducing image quality
- Zooming in on your subject
- Changing the area for measuring the brightness of a subject
- Changing the focusing area
- Recording sound with still pictures
- Recording sound with still pictures
- Shooting in digital image stabilization movie mode
- Turning off camera sounds
- Playback mode menu
- Playing back pictures automatically
- Playing back movies
- Correcting pictures
- Adding favorite images
- EDIT
- Changing the size of pictures
- Cropping a picture
- Changing the coloring of the picture
- Adding frames to pictures
- Add a label to your picture
- Create a calendar print with a picture
- Arranging and integrating multiple pictures
- Editing facial expression
- Highlighting a face in the picture
- Making an index picture from a movie
- Cutting a part of the moviePRINT ORDER Making print reservations (DPOF)00:00/00:36SET OKSET OK00:00/00:366
- Making print reservations (DPOF)
- PLAYBACK MENU
- Erase selected pictures/Erase all pictures
- SETUP menus
- Formatting the internal memory or card
- Copying pictures in the internal memory to the card
- Selecting a display language
- Setting the startup screen and volume
- Setting the menu screen color and background
- Adjusting the volume of the beep when buttons are pressed
- Adjusting the volume of the camera warning sound
- Selecting the sound of the shutter button
- Adjusting the volume during playback
- Viewing pictures immediately after they are taken
- Resetting the file names of pictures
- Adjusting the image processing function
- Adjusting the brightness of monitor
- Setting the date and time
- Setting the date and time for another time zone
- Setting alarms
- Playing back pictures on a TV
- Setting the camera to the power save mode
- Printing pictures
- Using OLYMPUS Master
- Getting to know your camera better
- Shooting tips and information
- Tips before you start taking pictures
- Shooting tips
- Focusing on the subject
- Subjects that are difficult to focus on
- Prevent blur by using image stabilization
- Taking stabilized pictures without the flash
- The picture is too grainy
- Taking pictures with the correct color
- Taking pictures of a white beach or snow scene
- Misalignment of panoramic pictures
- Taking pictures of a subject against backlight
- Additional shooting tips and information
- Playback help and troubleshooting tips
- Playback tips
- Viewing pictures on a computer
- When you get an error message on the camera...
- Functions available in shooting modes and scene modes
- Representative plug of power supply cord of countries/regions around the world
- Use of the accessories
- WEATHERPROOF FEATURE
- SPECIFICATIONS
- CAMERA DIAGRAM
- Shooting tips and information
- Index