User manual KONICA MINOLTA DIMAGE EX

[. . . ] Digital Camera E Camera Instruction Manual TABLE OF CONTENTS Thank you for purchasing this Minolta product. Your new digital camera has extraordinary features that expand your image capturing horizons. · Megapixel (1. 5 million pixels), progressive scan Sony Wfine CCDTM with primary colour filter. · High quality 2 inch colour LCD monitor with Live View display. · Uses removable CompactFlashTM cards for storage, so there's no limit on how many shots you can take. [. . . ] REVIEW 73 · The settings will be entered and the camera will return to the Play Settings menu. · Press the Default soft key to set the rate for all image types to 3 seconds. 72 REVIEWING/SELECTING IMAGES Review mode makes it fast and easy to review the images on the compact flash card by displaying mini previews of the images. This mode also allows the images to be categorized or marked. REVIEWING/SELECTING IMAGES Reviewing/Selecting Images Turn the camera on. Review Mode Screen Small thumbnails Pointer While pressing the lock button, slide the mode switch to REV. · The Review screen will appear on the LCD monitor. Arrow Large thumbnail (selected image) Category icon (p. 60) Press the Left and Right buttons to scroll through the thumbnails. · The pointer remains stationary while the small thumbnails scroll across the screen. Capture date and time Soft key label Capture type display Still Image (p. Camera name display Group name display These icons may appear in the bottom-right of the monitor. Select an image by scrolling through the thumbnails until the pointer is below the desired image and its large thumbnail is displayed. · Once an image is selected, it can be catagorized, grouped, protected, deleted, or marked. 74 75 REVIEW When performing functions, marked images receive priority over selected images. MARKING IMAGES Marked images have a `notch' on the bottom right corner. Mark multiple images to perform one of the following actions on them: Category p. 91 MARKING IMAGES UNMARK / UNMARK ALL Press the Left or Right button to select the desired image. MARK / MARK ALL Press the Left or Right button to select the desired image. Press the Unmark soft key. · The notch will disappear from the bottomright corner of the thumbnail. · Unmarking the first image in a collapsed group will unmark the entire group. Press the Mark soft key. · A notch will appear at the bottom-right corner of the thumbnail. · Marking the first image in a collapsed group will mark the entire group. Unmark all marked images by holding down the Unmark soft key for about 3 seconds, until the soft key label changes to Unmark All. Mark all the images in the camera by holding the Mark soft key down for about 3 seconds, until the soft key label changes to Mark All. 76 77 REVIEW CATEGORY The Category function allows you to add images to preset categories, represented by icons. A single, selected image can be added to a category or a set of marked images can be categorized. An image can belong to only one category. CATEGORY REMOVING IMAGES FROM A CATEGORY Remove a single image from a category. Select an image (p. Press the Category soft key. · The Categories menu appears. Press the Category soft key. · The Categories menu appears. Use the Up and Down buttons to scroll through the category icons. Use the Up and Down buttons to highlight the checked category. · The and marks indicate there are more menu items out of view. Press the Up or Down buttons to view the items. Press the Unselect soft key. Press the Select soft key to select the highlighted category. · A mark appears next to the selected category, then the image(s) will be assigned to the new category and the camera will return to the Review mode screen. · The Category icon for each image appears in the Review mode screen. · The mark disappears then the image will be removed from the category and the camera will return to the Review screen. 78 79 REVIEW A progress bar may appear if many images are being categorized. EXPAND/COLLAPSE - OPEN/CLOSE Burst, Timelapse, and Group images are represented in the Review screen by a single thumbnail image. It is possible to have all the thumbnails displayed for viewing by expanding the set. This also allows individual images within a set to be Marked, Deleted, etc. The Expand and Collapse soft key labels appear for Burst and Timelapse images. The Open and Close soft key labels appear for Grouped images. EXPAND/COLLAPSE - OPEN/CLOSE COLLAPSE/CLOSE The Collapse soft key label will appear when an expanded set of images is selected. Press the Collapse soft key. Collapsed Burst Image Closed Group Image · The link icon will disappear and the set will be represented by only the first image. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 Open/Expand Open/Expand Burst or Timelapse images within an Expanded Group can be collapsed independently. An action (Mark, Delete, Protect, etc. ) performed on a collapsed/closed set will be applied to the entire set. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 The white blocks represent images that are viewable. The gray blocks represent images that are hidden until the Open or Expand button is pressed. EXPAND/OPEN The Expand soft key label will appear when a set of images is selected. Press the Expand or Open soft key. The small thumbnails for all the images in the set will appear and a link icon will indicate the images are together. [. . . ] A FLASH BRACKETING FUNCTION HAS BEEN ADDED By changing the flash illumination in steps the exposure for the background not reached by the flash remains unchanged, while the exposure for the subject illuminated by the flash is bracketed. The exposure for the subject is bracketed from `optimum' `under exposed' `over exposed'. NEW FEATURES FOR Dimâge EX Version 2 6. CUSTOM SETTINGS FOR WHITE BALANCE HAS BEEN ADDED (see User's Manual P55) In addition to the preset white balance the Dimâge EX allows custom setting of white balance in accordance with the user's own white balance sample. Display the menu screen using the menu button, highlight [Photo Script] [Flash Bracketing] and press the Edit soft key. Display the menu screen using the menu button, highlight [Photo Script] [White Balance], and press the Edit soft key. Highlight the bracketing adjustment increment required, and press the Select soft key. Highlight [Custom]. Point the lens towards the white balance sample and press the Select soft key. Wait until the flash is charged, and then press the shutter button to take the photograph. [. . . ]