Olympus µ 780 User Manual
Advanced manual, Quick start guide
DIGITAL CAMERA
Advanced
Manual
Get started using your
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Table of contents
Document Outline
- Button operations
- Turning the camera on and off
- Shooting pictures
- Switching between shooting and playback modes
- Arrow pad
- OK/FUNC button
- Displaying the top menu
- Zooming while shooting/close-up playback
- Changing picture brightness
- Flash shooting
- Self-timer shooting
- Shooting pictures close to the subject
- Shooting pictures using the image stabilizer
- Viewing pictures/Printing pictures
- Brightening the subject against backlight/Erasing pictures
- 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
- Playback mode menu
- Playing back pictures automatically
- Playing back movies
- Adding favorite images
- Playing back the pictures in a calendar format
- EDIT
- Changing the size of pictures
- Compensating for backlighting in pictures
- Fixing the red-eye in pictures
- Changing pictures to black and white
- Changing pictures to a sepia tone
- Adding frames to pictures
- Add a label to your picture
- Create a calendar print with a picture
- Change the brightness of the picture
- Change the vividness of the picture
- Making an index picture from a movie
- 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
- 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
- Lamp indicators
- Extending the useful life of the battery
- Functions that cannot be selected from menus
- Selecting the appropriate image quality
- 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