Olympus 840 User Manual
Advanced manual, Quick start guide, Digital camera
DIGITAL CAMERA
Advanced
Manual
Getting to know your
camera better
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Table of contents
Document Outline
- Button operations
- Turning the camera on and off
- Shutter button Shooting pictures
- Mode dial Switching between shooting and playback modes
- Arrow pad
- OK/FUNC button
- Displays 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 mode)
- Viewing pictures/Printing pictures
- Brightening the subject against backlight/Erasing pictures/Brightening the monitor (Backlight boost)
- Changing the information on display/ Display the menu guide/Checking the time
- 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
- Shooting pictures using image stabilization
- Turning off camera sounds
- Playback mode menu
- 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
- Setting the sound output of the camera
- 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
- Increasing the number of pictures that can be taken
- Using a new card
- The card access lamp blinks
- Extending the useful life of the battery
- Functions that cannot be selected from menus / Function that cannot be selected even by pressing the function buttons
- Restoring 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 available in shooting modes and scene modes
- Shooting tips and information
- Appendix
- Index