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Instruction Manual - Page 1
INSTRUCTIONS
• Before using your camera, read this manual carefully to ensure correct use.
• We recommend that you take test shots to get
accustomed to your camera before taking important photographs.
Instruction Manual - Page 2
IN CASE OF MALFUNCTION, CONSULT YOUR NEAREST OLYMPUS DEALER OR OLYMPUS SERVICE CENTER.
3
IT CONTAINS A HIGHVOLTAGE CIRCUIT. NEVER ATTEMPT TO DISASSEMBLE THE CAMERA; Ignoring this warning may result in the death or serious injury of the user.
Instruction Manual - Page 3
... Select buttons let you get on film. Flash fires automatically to prevent fluorescent light from the actual unit.
4 Symbols used in the viewfinder is what you easily set/choose the right exposure mode for any shooting purpose. SLR lens ensures that what you see in this manual enclosed in boxes Products shown in 28mm...
Instruction Manual - Page 4
... Correcting the data 50 Printing the date and time 51
TAKING BETTER Effects of zoom and its advantages ... 52
Autofocus (AF 54
PICTURES
Exposure 56
Film speed 58 Metering the amount of light 58 Accessories (optional 60
CAMERA MAINTENANCE
Questions and answers 61
Care and storage ...62 Battery handling ...64 Troubleshooting ...65 Specifications ...68 5
Instruction Manual - Page 7
Exposure compensation/ overexposureunderexposure (p. 46&47/41)
Panorama frame
8 VIEWFINDER DISPLAY
Standard mode
Spot frame
The area used by the Spot Metering mode to set exposure. Autofocus frame
Position your subject within the autofocus frame.
Panorama mode
Flash (p. 30/31) Autofocus (p. 17/24)
Lights when the subject is in focus.
Instruction Manual - Page 10
USING THE STRAP/SOFT CASE
SOFT CASE (* IS-30 DLX only)
The soft case can be attached to a belt with the belt loop.
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Instruction Manual - Page 26
Push the switch down to return to the Panorama mode.
Otherwise the camera may malfunction.
Viewfinder in the Panorama mode. TAKING PANORAMA PICTURES Panorama model only
Selecting the Panorama Mode
Push the panorama switch up to change to the Standard mode. don't stop it
halfway. •The date and time ...
Instruction Manual - Page 29
.... Significantly reduces the phenomenon of the flash is pressed fully, the flash fires to a person or animal.
When the shutter release button is taken. Note: Use of "red-eye" (when a subject's... and under fluorescent lighting (p. 31). Otherwise, the camera will select a long exposure and pictures may be blurred due to camera shake.
30
There is fired very close to take the picture....
Instruction Manual - Page 33
... FULL AUTO.
2. Select the Fill-in Flash mode
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cannot be shot clearly. Note: In exposure modes
Note: The shutter speed is set at
other than Full Auto and
1/100-sec.
Aperture and flash output will
Aperture-Preferred Auto,
adjust for correct exposure. And portraits look lively by ...
Instruction Manual - Page 35
...situations:
Stop Action (p. 37)
To freeze moving subjects.
The aperture is automatically set the shutter speed manually from 1 to 60 seconds.
How to Select the Exposure Mode
Press one of...set to F8. 36
USING THE EXPOSURE MODES
There are four preset settings for "portrait" effect.
For more creative lighting effects:
Aperture-Preferred Auto (p. 41)
Set the aperture manually. The camera ...
Instruction Manual - Page 49
CORRECTING THE DATA QD models only
Press the SELECT button to switch to the data correction status to correct the data. Do not press the buttons with a mechanical pencil or similar pointed instrument.
If you want to change starts blinking.
2.Press the SET button to adjust year-month-day and day-hour-minute...
Instruction Manual - Page 50
...may not be
legible.
• Data may not be changed.
SELECT button: Chooses the indication to use. SET button: Adjusts figures.
• Date and time are not imprinted in
the Panorama mode.
• If ....)
As you press the MODE button, the mode will not be printed on black-and-white film.
51 Year-month-day Day-hour-minute No data Month-day-year Day-month-year
MODE button...
Instruction Manual - Page 64
...Set the power switch to function.
The camera doesn't The autofocus may not work .
blinks and the shutter cannot be released.
The film is
recompose the frame to take the
difficult for about 30...incorrectly. The loaded film has been rewound. The flash has not finished recharging. TROUBLESHOOTING
Operating Problems
Symptom
Cause
Remedy
See
The camera does not work ...
Instruction Manual - Page 66
... Auto-S Flash mode to the "0" position. Set the flash to Fill-In mode.
34
Reset the exposure compensation
46
dial to significantly reduce red-eye phenomenon. The camera moved when the shutter release button was out of the working range of the 32
flash. Problems with all cameras when a flash is used.
The viewfinder...
Instruction Manual - Page 67
... (to be automatically set for next lower speed.
Flash-shutter synchronization: Under 1/100 sec. plane shutter.
SPECIFICATIONS
Type: Fully automatic 35 mm autofocus single-lens reflex camera with built-in Portrait mode).
(manual). Aperture-Preferred Auto. Viewfinder: Standard/panorama switchable‡ single- be used as flash
Film format: 35 mm standard DX-coded film (24 X
warning...
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