Casio Ex Fh20 Users Guide
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Digital Camera K1160PCM2DMX Thank you for purchasing this CASIO product. • Before using it, be sure to read the precautions contained in this User’s Guide. • Keep the User’s Guide in a safe place for future reference. • For the most up-to-date information about this product, visit the official EXILIM Website at http://www.exilim.com/ E User’s Guide
2 As you unpack your camera, check to make sure that all items shown below are included. If anything is missing, contact your original retailer. Unpacking Digital cameraAlkaline batteries (4 AA-size batteries)Strap Lens cap/cap holder USB cable AV cable CD-ROM Basic Reference
3 • The contents of this manual are subject to change without notice. • The contents of this manual have been checked at each step of the production process. Feel free to contact us if you notice anything that is questionable, erroneous, etc. • Any copying of the contents of this User’s Guide, either in part or its entirety, is forbidden. Except for your own personal use, any other use of the contents of this manual without the permission of CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD. is forbidden under copyright laws. • CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD. shall not be held liable for any damages or lost profits suffered by you or any third party due to the use or malfunction of this product. • CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD. shall not be held liable for any damages, lost profits, or claims by third parties arising out of the use of YouTube Uploader for CASIO. • CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD. shall not be held liable for any damages or lost profits caused by loss of memory contents due to malfunction, repair, or any other reason. • Note that the example screens and product illustrations shown in this User’s Guide may differ somewhat from the screens and configuration of the actual camera. LCD Panel The liquid crystal panel used for the monitor screen and viewfinder employs high- precision technology that provides a pixel yield of 99.99%. This means that some very small number of pixels may not light or may remain lit at all times. This is due to the characteristics of the liquid crystal panel, and does not indicate malfunction. Read this first! Take test shots Before shooting your final image, shoot a test shot to ensure that the camera is recording correctly.
4Contents Contents Unpacking . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Read this first! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 ❚❙Quick Start Basics 9 What is a digital camera? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 What you can do with your CASIO camera . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 Attaching the Lens Cap and Strap . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 To load the batteries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 ❚Specifying the Battery Type . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15Configuring the Display Language the First Time You Turn On the Camera . . 15 Preparing a Memory Card . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 ❚Supported Memory Cards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17❚To load a memory card . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17❚To format (initialize) a new memory card . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18Turning the Camera On and Off . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19❚To turn power on . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19❚To turn off the camera . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19To shoot a snapshot. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 Holding the Camera Correctly . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 Viewing Snapshots . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 Deleting Images . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 ❚To delete a single file . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25❚To delete all files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25Snapshot Shooting Precautions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26❚Auto Focus Restrictions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 ❚❙Snapshot Tutorial 27 Selecting a Recording Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 Using the Control Panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 Selecting the Exposure Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29 Changing the Image Size . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (Size) . . 31 Using Flash . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (Flash) . . 35 Specifying ISO Sensitivity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (ISO) . . 38 Adjusting White Balance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (White Balance) . . 38 Correcting Image Brightness . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .(EV Shift) . . 40 Specifying the Metering Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (Metering) . . 41 Specifying the Auto Focus Area . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (AF Area) . . 41 Changing the Control Panel Date/Time Style . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43 Shooting with Zoom . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43 ❚Optical Zoom/Digital Zoom Switch Point. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44Selecting a Focus Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (Focus) . . 46 Locking the Auto Exposure and Auto Focus Setting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49 ❚Specifying the [AEL] button Operation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49Using Continuous Shutter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50 B
5Contents ❚Using Flash Continuous Shutter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50❚Using High-speed CS and Prerecord CS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51❚Specifying the Method for Saving Continuous Shutter Images . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53❚Continuous Shutter Precautions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55 ❚❙Recording Movies 56 To record a movie . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56❚Audio . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57Recording a High-definition Movie . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59 Recording a High-speed Movie . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59 Using Prerecord Movie . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (Prerecord (Movie)) . . 61 Recording a Movie for YouTube . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (YouTube) . . 62 Turning Optical Zoom On or Off . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (Optical Zoom) . . 63 ❚❙Using BEST SHOT 64 What is BEST SHOT? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64❚Some Sample Scenes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64To shoot with BEST SHOT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64❚Creating Your Own BEST SHOT Setups . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66Shooting with High Speed Night Scene . . . . . (High Speed Night Scene) . . 67 Shooting with High Speed Anti Shake . . . . . . . .(High Speed Anti Shake) . . 68 Shooting with Digital Panning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (Digital Panning) . . 69 Isolating Moving Subjects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (Multi-motion image) . . 69 ❚Basic Multi-motion image Procedure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69Shooting an Image in Accordance with Subject Movement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (Move Out CS/Move In CS) . . 71 ❚❙Advanced Settings 76 Using On-screen Menus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76 REC Mode Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (REC) . . 78 ❚Using the Self-timer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (Self-timer) . . . 78❚Using the Auto Focus Assist Light . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (AF Assist Light) . . . 79❚Reducing the Effects of Camera and Subject Movement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (Anti Shake) . . . 79 ❚Shooting with Face Detection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .(Face Detection) . . . 80❚Shooting with Continuous Auto Focus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (Continuous AF) . . . 81❚Specifying the [AEL] button Operation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (AE/AF Lock) . . . 82❚Configuring the Continuous Shutter Image Save Method . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (Save CS Images) . . . 82 ❚Turning Digital Zoom On or Off . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .(Digital Zoom) . . . 82❚Shooting with Quick Shutter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (Quick Shutter) . . . 83❚Turning on Image Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (Review) . . . 83❚Displaying the On-screen Grid . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (Grid) . . . 83❚Using Icon Help . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (Icon Help) . . . 84❚Configuring Power On Default Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (Memory) . . . 84Image Quality Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (Quality) . . 85❚Specifying Snapshot Image Quality . . . . . . . . . . . . (T Quality (Snapshot)) . . . 85 B
6Contents ❚Reducing Underexposure and Overexposure . . . . . . . . . (Dynamic Range) . . . 85❚Specifying Flash Intensity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (Flash Intensity) . . . 86❚Turning On Flash Assist . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (Flash Assist) . . . 86❚Using Built-in Color Filters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (Color Filter) . . . 86❚Controlling Image Sharpness . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (Sharpness) . . . 87❚Controlling Color Saturation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (Saturation) . . . 87❚Adjusting Image Contrast . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (Contrast) . . . 87 ❚❙Viewing Snapshots and Movies 88 Viewing Snapshots . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88 Viewing a Movie. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88 Viewing Continuous Shutter Images . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89 ❚Deleting Continuous Shutter Images . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90❚Dividing Up a CS Group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90❚Copying a CS Group Image . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91Zooming an On-screen Image . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92 Displaying the Image Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92 Viewing Snapshots and Movies on a TV Screen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93 ❚❙Other Playback Functions (PLAY) 95 Playing a Slideshow on the Camera . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (Slideshow) . . 95 Creating a Snapshot of Movie Frames . . . . . . . . . . . . . (MOTION PRINT) . . 96 Editing a Movie on the Camera . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (Movie Editing) . . 97 Adjusting White Balance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (White Balance) . . 99 Adjusting the Brightness of an Existing Snapshot . . . . . . . . .(Brightness) . 100 Selecting Images for Printing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (DPOF Printing) . 100 Protecting a File Against Deletion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (Protect) . 101 Rotating an Image . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (Rotation) . 102 Resizing a Snapshot . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .(Resize) . 102 Cropping a Snapshot . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (Trimming) . 103 Copying Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (Copy) . 103 Dividing Up a Continuous Shutter Group . . . . . . . . . . . . . .(Divide Group) . 104 Copying a Continuous Shutter Group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (Select Frame) . 104 ❚❙Printing 105 Printing Snapshots. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105 Connecting Directly to a PictBridge Compatible Printer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106 Using DPOF to Specify Images to be Printed and the Number of Copies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108 ❚❙Using the Camera with a Computer 111 Things you can do using a computer... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111 Using the Camera with a Windows Computer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112 ❚Viewing and Storing Images on a Computer. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113❚Playing Movies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116 B
7Contents ❚Uploading Movie Files to YouTube . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116❚Viewing User Documentation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (PDF Files) . . 118❚User Registration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118Using the Camera with a Macintosh . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119❚Connecting the Camera to Your Computer and Saving Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119❚Transferring Images Automatically and Managing Them on Your Macintosh . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121 ❚Playing a Movie. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121❚Viewing User Documentation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (PDF Files) . . 122❚User Registration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122Files and Folders . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123 Memory Card Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124 ❚❙Other Settings (Set Up) 126 Adjusting Monitor Screen Brightness . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (Screen) . 126 Adjusting Viewfinder Brightness . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .(EVF Brightness) . 126 Configuring Camera Sound Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (Sounds) . 127 Specifying the File Name Serial Number Generation Rule . . . . . (File No.) . 127 Configuring World Time Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (World Time) . 128 Time Stamping Snapshots . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (Timestamp) . 129 Setting the Camera’s Clock . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (Adjust) . 129 Specifying the Date Style . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (Date Style) . 130 Specifying the Display Language . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (Language) . 130 Configuring Sleep State Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (Sleep) . 131 Configuring Auto Power Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (Auto Power Off) . 131 Configuring [r] and [p] Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (REC/PLAY) . 132 Controlling Monitor Screen Priority . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (LCD Priority) . 132 Configuring USB Protocol Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (USB) . 133 Selecting the Screen Aspect Ratio and Video Output System (Video Out) . 133 Specifying the Battery Type . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (Battery Type) . 134 Configuring a Startup Image . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (Startup) . 134 Formatting Built-in Memory or a Memory Card . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (Format) . 135 Resetting the Camera to Factory Defaults . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (Reset) . 135 ❚❙Configuring Monitor Screen Settings 136 Turning Display Information On and Off . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (Info) . 136 Selecting Monitor Screen and Viewfinder Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136 Using the On-screen Histogram to Check Exposure . . . . . . (+Histogram) . 137 ❚How to Use the Histogram . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138 ❚❙Appendix 139 Precautions during Use . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139 Power Supply. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146 ❚To replace the batteries. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146❚Battery Precautions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146 B
8Contents ❚Using Household Power . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150Using a Memory Card . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151❚To replace the memory card . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151Computer System Requirements for Bundled Software . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153 General Guide . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154 Monitor Screen Contents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 156 Reset Initial Default Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159 When things don’t go right... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161 ❚Troubleshooting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161❚Display Messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165Number of Snapshots and Movie Recording Time . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 168 Specifications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171 B
9Quick Start Basics Quick Start Basics What is a digital camera? Delete A digital camera stores images on a memory card, so you can record and delete images a countless number of times. Play Record You can use the images you record in a variety of different ways. Store images on your computer.Print images. Attach images to e-mail.
10Quick Start Basics Your CASIO camera is packed with a powerful selection of features and functions to make recording of digital images easier, including the following three main functions. What you can do with your CASIO camera See page 59 for more information. See page 59 for more information. See page 50 for more information. HD Movie Recording You can record movies in high-quality HD. (1280x720 pixels 30 fps) High-speed Continuous Shutter Prerecord (Still image) Now you can shoot continuous high-resolution images at the amazing speed of 40 images per second. Prerecord (Still image) pre-records images to ensure you are almost never too late with the shutter button. High-speed Movies Movies can be recorded at up to 1000 frames per second. This makes it possible to clearly view phenomena that are invisible to the human eye, in slow motion.