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    E
    Digital Camera
    EX-V8
    User’s Guide
    K830PCM1DMX
    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/
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    							2UNPACKING
    UNPACKING
    As you unpack your camera, check to make sure that all items shown below are included. If anything is missing, contact your original 
    retailer.
    Digital Camera Rechargeable Lithium Ion Battery (NP-50) USB Cradle (CA-35)
    Special AC Adaptor (AD-C52G)/AC Power Cord *Strap
    USB Cable AV Cable CD-ROMs (2) Basic Reference
    *The shape of the AC power 
    cord plug varies according to 
    country or geographic area.
    Attach strap here.
    To attach the strap to the camera.
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    							3CONTENTS
    CONTENTS
    UNPACKING 2
    QUICK START BASICS 9
    First, charge the battery  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
    Configuring Display Language, Date, 
    and Time Settings  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
    Using a Memory Card  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
    Shooting a Snapshot . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
    Viewing Snapshots  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
    Shooting a Movie . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
    Viewing a Movie . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
    Deleting a File  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
    INTRODUCTION 22
    Features  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
    Read this first! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
    Precautions during Use  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
    GETTING READY 36
    Charging the Battery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
    ■To load the battery 36
    ■To charge the battery 37
    ■Replacing the Battery 41
    ■Battery Precautions 41
    Using the Camera in another Country . . . . . . . . . . 42
    Turning Power On and Off  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
    Using a Memory Card  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
    ■Supported Memory Cards 46
    ■Loading a Memory Card into the Camera 48
    ■Replacing the Memory Card 49
    ■Formatting a Memory Card 50
    Using On-screen Menus  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
    Changing the Contents of 
    the Monitor Screen  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
    If you lose your way... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
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    							4CONTENTS
    SHOOTING A SNAPSHOT 56
    Specifying the Recording Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
    Holding the Camera Correctly  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
    Shooting a Snapshot . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
    ■Specifying Image Size 62
    ■Specifying Image Quality 63
    ■Turning Off the AF Assist Lamp 64
    ■Using the easy Mode 65
    ■Snapshot Shooting Precautions 67
    ■Auto Focus Restrictions 68
    Shooting with Zoom  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
    Using Flash  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
    Using the Self-Timer  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77
    Using Continuous Shutter  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79
    ■Selecting the Continuous Shutter Mode 79
    ■Recording with Normal-speed Continuous 
    Shutter, High-speed Continuous Shutter, 
    and Flash Continuous Shutter 80
    ■Continuous Shutter Precautions 80
    Adding Audio to a Snapshot  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81
    Face Recognition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84
    ■Performing a face recognition recording 
    operation (Normal Mode) 84
    ■Using the Family First Mode to 
    Give Priority to Particular Faces 85
    ■Face Recognition Precautions 90
    Manually Configuring Shutter Speed 
    and Aperture Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91
    SHOOTING A MOVIE 97
    Movie Image Quality  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97
    Shooting a Movie . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98
    ■Movie Recording Precautions 99
    Using Short Movie . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100
    Using Past Movie . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102
    USING BEST SHOT 104
    Taking Bright Images without Flash  . . . . . . . . . . 110
    Shooting Images of Business Cards and 
    Documents (Business Shot) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111
    Shooting ID Photographs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114
    Restoring an Old Photograph . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116
    Recording Snapshots into a Multi-image 
    Layout (Layout Shots) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119
    Auto Tracking a Moving Subject 
    (Auto Framing) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121
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    							5CONTENTS
    ADVANCED SETTINGS 123
    Changing the Focus Mode  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123
    ■Using Auto Focus 124
    ■Using Macro Focus 125
    ■Using Infinity Focus 131
    ■Using Manual Focus 131
    Reducing the Effects of Hand and Subject 
    Movement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133
    Shooting with the REC Light  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135
    Correcting Image Brightness (EV Shift)  . . . . . . . 136
    Controlling White Balance  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138
    Specifying ISO Sensitivity  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141
    Specifying the Metering Mode  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142
    Reducing the Effects of Overexposure and 
    Underexposure  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143
    Enhancing Human Skin Textures. . . . . . . . . . . . . 144
    Using the Camera’s Color Filter Effects  . . . . . . . 145
    Controlling Image Sharpness . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145
    Controlling Color Saturation  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146
    Adjusting Image Contrast . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146
    Date Stamping Snapshots  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147
    Using the On-screen Histogram to 
    Check Exposure. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148Other Useful Recording Functions  . . . . . . . . . . . 150
    ■Using Key Customize to Assign Functions 
    [W] and [X]150
    ■Displaying an On-screen Grid 151
    ■Displaying the Image You Just Recorded 
    (Image Review) 152
    ■Using Icon Help 152
    ■Using Mode Memory to Configure Power On 
    Default Settings 153
    ■Resetting the Camera to Its Initial Factory 
    Defaults 155
    VIEWING SNAPSHOTS 
    AND MOVIES 156
    Viewing a Snapshot . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 156
    ■Listening to the Audio of an Audio Snapshot 157
    Viewing a Movie . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 158
    ■Playing Back a Movie with Anti Shake 160
    Playing a Slideshow on the Camera  . . . . . . . . . . 160
    Viewing Camera Images on a TV  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 166
    Zooming the Displayed Image  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169
    Using the 9-image Screen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 170
    Using the Calendar Screen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171
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    							6CONTENTS
    EDITING IMAGES 173
    Resizing a Snapshot . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173
    Cropping a Snapshot  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 174
    Keystone Correction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175
    Using Color Restoration to Correct 
    the Color of an Old Photograph . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 176
    Editing the Date and Time of an Image . . . . . . . . 178
    Rotating an Image . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179
    Combining Multiple Snapshots into 
    a Single Image (Layout Print) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 180
    Adjusting White Balance of 
    a Recorded Image  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 182
    Adjusting Image Brightness . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183
    Reducing the Effects of Underexposure . . . . . . . 185
    Editing a Movie on the Camera  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 186
    Creating a Snapshot of a Movie Frame 
    (MOTION PRINT)  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189
    USING AUDIO 191
    Adding Audio to a Snapshot. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191
    Recording Audio Only (Voice Recording) . . . . . . 193
    MANAGING YOUR FILES 196
    Files and Folders . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 196
    Protecting a File Against Deletion . . . . . . . . . . . . 197
    Using the FAVORITE Folder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199
    Copying Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201
    DELETING FILES 204
    Deleting a Specific File  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 204
    Deleting All Files  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 205
    Deleting FAVORITE Folder Snapshots  . . . . . . . . 205
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    							7CONTENTS
    OTHER SETTINGS 206
    Configuring Camera Sound Settings . . . . . . . . . . 206
    Turning the Startup Screen On or Off  . . . . . . . . . 208
    Specifying the File Name Serial Number 
    Generation Rule . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 209
    Changing the Camera Date 
    and Time Setting  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 210
    Using World Time  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 212
    ■Configuring World Time Settings 212
    Changing the Display Language  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 214
    Changing the Brightness of 
    the Monitor Screen  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 215
    Changing the USB Port Protocol . . . . . . . . . . . . . 216
    Configuring [ ] (PLAY) Button Settings  . . . . . 217
    Formatting Built-in Memory  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 218
    PRINTING 219
    Types of Printing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 219
    Using Professional Print Service . . . . . . . . . . . . . 220
    Using Your Printer to Print Images  . . . . . . . . . . . 220
    Using DPOF to Specify Images to be 
    Printed and the Number of Copies . . . . . . . . . . . . 224
    ■Date Stamping 226
    Supported Protocols . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 227
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    							8CONTENTS
    USING THE CAMERA WITH 
    A COMPUTER 229
    What you can do  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 229
    Using the Camera with a Windows Computer  . . 230
    ■Viewing and Storing Images on a Computer 234
    ■Transfer of Images from the Camera 
    and Management of Images on the Computer 241
    ■Playing Movies 243
    ■Uploading Movie Files to YouTube 244
    ■Editing a Movie 247
    ■Transferring Images to the Camera 248
    ■Viewing User Documentation (PDF Files) 252
    ■User Registration 252
    ■Exiting the CD-ROM Menu 252
    Using the Camera with a Macintosh  . . . . . . . . . . 253
    ■Viewing and Storing Images on a Macintosh 254
    ■Transfer of Images from the Camera 
    and Management of Images on Your Macintosh 259
    ■Playing Movies 259
    ■Viewing User Documentation (PDF Files) 260
    ■Registering as a User 260
    Reading Files Directly from a Memory Card . . . . 261
    Memory Card Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 262
    APPENDIX 265
    General Guide  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 265
    Monitor Screen Contents  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 267
    Menu Reference . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 269
    Indicator Lamps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 272
    Troubleshooting Guide . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 275
    ■Finding the Problem and Fixing It 275
    ■Display Messages 280
    Specifications. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 282
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    							9QUICK START BASICS
    QUICK START BASICS
    (page 36)
    ■Loading the Battery into the Camera
    1.Open the battery cover.
    2.Load the battery into the camera.
    3.Close the battery cover.
    First, charge the battery
    12
    While pressing lightly on the 
    cover, slide it in the direction 
    indicated by the arrow to open. Monitor Screen
    BackStopper
    EXILIM logo
    Front Back Battery contacts
    1
    2
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    							10QUICK START BASICS
    ■Using the USB Cradle to Charge
    1.Plug the USB cradle into a household power 
    outlet.
    2.Place the camera onto the USB cradle.
    AC adaptor
    AC power cordUSB cradle
    [CHARGE] lamp
    Red: Charging
    Green: Charged (Full)
    • It takes about 150 minutes to 
    achieve a full charge.
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