Olympus SP-510 UZ User Manual
Sp-510uz, Advanced manual
Advanced
Manual
Getting to know your
camera better
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SP-510UZ
Table of contents
Document Outline
- Contents
- Gather these items (box contents)
- Prepare the battery
- Turn the camera on
- Set date and time
- Shoot
- View pictures
- Button operations
- Turning the camera on and off
- Monitor/Viewfinder
- Shooting pictures
- Zooming while shooting/close-up playback
- Shooting still pictures and movies with digital image stabilization/Printing pictures
- Switching between shooting and playback modes
- Shooting pictures with full automatic settings
- Set the optimum aperture value and shutter speed
- Changing the aperture value / Changing the shutter speed
- Changing the aperture value and shutter speed for shooting pictures
- Setting your own original mode for shooting pictures
- Follow the shooting guide for setting
- Shoot pictures by selecting a scene according to the situation
- Recording movies
- Viewing still pictures/Selecting playback mode
- Flash pop-up
- Changing the information on display/Display the menu guide/Checking the time
- MENU
- Arrow pad
- Self-timer shooting/Erasing pictures
- Shooting pictures close to the subject
- Changing picture brightness
- Flash shooting
- Viewing pictures
- OK/FUNC
- Menu operations
- About the menus
- Operation guide
- Using the menus
- Shooting mode menu
- Changing the image quality
- Change the shooting functions back to default settings
- Shooting pictures by selecting a scene according to the situation
- CAMERA MENU
- Adjusting the color of a picture
- Changing the ISO sensitivity
- Continuous shooting
- Changing the area for measuring the brightness of a subject
- Zooming in on your subject without degrading the image quality
- Zooming in on your subject
- Changing the focusing area
- Changing the focus method
- Shooting pictures while keeping the subject in focus
- Shooting pictures with the focus on subjects moving back and forth
- Shooting still pictures using digital image stabilization
- Adjusting the amount of light emitted by the flash
- Selecting the flash timing
- Setting to use an external flash
- Recording sound with still pictures
- Creating a panoramic picture
- Adjusting the white balance compensation
- Adjusting the sharpness of the image
- Adjusting the contrast of the image
- Adjusting the saturation of the image
- Reducing the noise during long exposures
- Shooting pictures automatically as defined by set conditions
- Recording sound with movies
- Reducing the blur incurred by camera movement when taking movies
- Setting to turn off operational sounds
- Playback mode menu
- Playing back pictures automatically
- Playing back movies
- Playing back the pictures in a calendar format
- See the pictures registered in the album
- EDIT
- Editing the pictures recorded in raw data format
- Changing the size of pictures
- Cropping a part of pictures
- Fixing the red-eye in pictures
- Changing pictures to black and white
- Changing pictures to a sepia tone
- Synthesize the frame and the picture
- Add a label to your picture
- Synthesize the calendar using the picture
- Creating an index layout of pictures
- Controlling the lighting of the picture
- Change the brightness of the picture
- Change the vividness of the picture
- Making an index picture from a movie
- Extracting a part of the movie
- Capturing a still image from the movie
- Making print reservations (DPOF)
- PLAYBACK MENU
- Erase selected pictures/Erase all pictures
- Album playback menus
- SETUP menus
- Formatting the internal memory or card
- Copying pictures in the internal memory to the card
- Selecting a display language
- Setting the startup/shutdown screen and sound
- Registering a picture as the startup screen
- Adjusting the volume of beep when button is pressed
- Adjust the volume of camera warning sound
- Selecting the sound of the shutter button
- Adjusting the volume during playback
- Viewing pictures immediately
- Resetting the file names of pictures
- Adjusting the image processing function
- Adjusting the monitor brightness
- Setting the date and time
- Setting the date and time in another time zone
- Setting alarms
- Playing back pictures on a TV
- Displaying the frame assist/Determining the type of frame assist
- Displaying the histogram
- Setting and saving shooting-related functions
- Setting the measurement unit during manual focus
- Setting to light the illuminator in a dark place
- Assigning functions to the custom buttons
- 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
- To shoot a stabilized digital image
- 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
- Taking pictures of a subject against backlight
- When the subject is too bright or too dark
- Additional shooting tips and information
- Increasing the number of pictures that can be taken
- Using a new card
- Lamp indicators
- Extending the useful life of the battery
- Functions that cannot be selected from menus
- Selecting the optimal record mode
- To return the settings of functions to default settings
- Confirming the exposure when the monitor is difficult to see outdoors
- Playback help and troubleshooting tips
- Playback tips
- Viewing pictures on a computer
- When you get an error message on the camera...
- Functions that can be assigned to My Mode and custom button
- Functions available in shooting modes and scenes
- Shooting tips and information
- Miscellaneous
- Index