Casio Exilim Ex V8 Users Guide

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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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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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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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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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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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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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