Olympus STYLUS 400 Digital Manuel utilisateur

DIGITAL CAMERA

REFERENCE MANUAL

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zThank you for purchasing an Olympus digital camera. Before you start

to use your new camera, please read these instructions carefully to

enjoy optimum performance and a longer service life. Keep this manual

in a safe place for future reference.

zWe recommend that you take test shots to get accustomed to your

camera before taking important photographs.

zThis reference manual contains guidelines for using Olympus Stylus

300/400 DIGITAL (µ [mju:] 300/400 DIGITAL). Except where otherwise

specified, the explanations in the manual apply to both models.

zIn the interest of continually improving products, Olympus reserves the

right to update or modify information contained in this manual.

DIGITAL CAMERA

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For customers in North and South America

For customers in Europe

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• The standards for camera file systems referred to in this manual are the “Design

Rule for Camera File System/DCF” standards stipulated by the Japan Electronics

and Information Technology Industries Association (JEITA).

“CE” mark indicates that this product complies with the European

requirements for safety, health, environment and customer protection.

“CE” mark cameras are intended for sales in Europe.

For customers in USA

Declaration of Conformity

Model Number : Stylus 300 DIGITAL, Stylus 400 DIGITAL

RM-2 (Remote control)

Trade Name : OLYMPUS

Responsible Party : Olympus America Inc.

Address : 2 Corporate Center Drive, Melville, New York

11747-3157 U.S.A.

Telephone Number : 631-844-5000

Tested To Comply With FCC Standards

FOR HOME OR OFFICE USE

This device complies with Part 15 of the FCC rules. Operation is subject to

the following two conditions:

(1) This device may not cause harmful interference.

(2) This device must accept any interference received, including

interference that may cause undesired operation.

For customers in Canada

This Class B digital apparatus meets all requirements of the Canadian

Contents P.4

Introduction of the

camera’s functions

This section guides you through

the basic operations from taking

pictures to playing them back.

“Quick-start guide” is designed

for those who want to become

familiar with the camera in a

very short time.

Getting started P.8 1

Quick-start guide P.33 2

Using the menus and tabs P.39 3

Shooting basics P.47 4

For fine-tuning the settings to

get that particular shot Advanced shooting P.65 5

For playing back and arranging

pictures Playback P.83 6

Settings that make the camera

easier to operate. Useful functions P.101 7

Printing pictures Print settings P.111 8

Troubleshooting and other

information Miscellaneous P.117 9

Specifications P.133

Glossary of terms P.135

index P.137

Contents

Contents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4

1 Getting started 8

Names of parts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

Camera . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

Monitor indications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

Weatherproof feature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

How to use this manual . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

Attaching the strap. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

Charging the battery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

Loading the battery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18

Using an optional AC adapter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20

Inserting a card . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22

Card basics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22

Removing the card . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24

Power on/off . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25

If the card is not recognized (card check) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27

Selecting a language . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28

Setting the date and time . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30

Holding the camera . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32

2 Quick-start guide 33

Shooting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33

Taking still pictures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33

Recording movies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34

Playback . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35

Viewing still pictures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35

Viewing movies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36

Protecting pictures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37

Erasing pictures (Single-frame erase) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38

Contents

3 Using the menus and tabs 39

About the menus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39

How to use the menus. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40

Shortcut menus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42

Mode Menus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44

4 Shooting basics 47

Shooting modes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47

Taking still pictures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50

Taking still pictures using the monitor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50

Taking still pictures using the viewfinder. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51

Comparison of the viewfinder & monitor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53

If correct focus cannot be obtained . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54

Determine the position of the subject

after focusing (Focus Lock). . . . . . . . . 54

Subjects that are difficult to focus on . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55

Night scene mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56

Recording movies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57

Zoom . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59

Using the optical zoom . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59

Using the digital zoom. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60

Using the flash . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62

5 Advanced shooting 65

Macro mode shooting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65

Self-timer shooting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66

Remote control shooting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67

Selecting the metering area , . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69

Sequential shooting , . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70

Panorama shooting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71

Taking two-in-one pictures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73

Selecting a record mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75

Contents

Varying the image brightness (Exposure compensation) . . 79

Adjusting the White balance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81

6 Playback 83

Viewing still pictures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83

QUICK VIEW. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84

Close-up playback . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85

Index display . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86

Selecting the number of pictures. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87

Slideshow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88

Playback on a TV . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89

Picture Rotation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90

Viewing movies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91

Protecting pictures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93

Erasing pictures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94

Single-frame erase . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94

All-frame erase . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95

Editing still pictures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96

Creating black and white pictures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96

Creating sepia-toned pictures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97

Resizing pictures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97

Creating an index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99

7 Useful functions 101

Saving the settings (All Reset) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101

Formatting cards (Card setup) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103

Displaying shooting information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105

Adjusting the monitor brightness . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106

Viewing a picture immediately after shooting (Rec View) . . . 107

Turning the beep sound off . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108

Pixel Mapping . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109

Video output selection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110

Contents

8 Print settings 111

How to print pictures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111

All-frame reservation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113

Single-frame reservation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114

Resetting print reservation data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116

9 Miscellaneous 117

Error codes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117

Troubleshooting. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119

Menu List . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124

Factory default settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128

List of functions by shooting mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130

Camera maintenance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131

Specifications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133

Glossary of terms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135

index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137

Getting started

1 Getting started

Names of parts

Camera

Shutter button P.33

Flash

P.62

USB connector

Connector cover

P.23, 89

DC-IN jack (4.8V)

P.20

Self-timer/

Remote control

lamp

P.66, 67

Lens barrier

Turns the camera on

and off in the shooting

mode.

Lens

Extends automatically

when you open the lens

barrier. P.25

VIDEO OUT

jack

P.89

Remote

control

receiver

P.67

Card cover

P.23

DC-IN jack

cover

P.20

Names of parts

Getting started

Monitor

P.35

Battery compartment cover

P.18

OK/Menu button

()

P.39

Monitor button

(QUICK VIEW )

P.35

Flash mode button

Shooting mode button

Zoom button (W/T )

P.59, 85, 86

Macro button

Self-timer button

Arrow pad

Strap eyelet P.16

Tripod socket

Viewfinder

AF target mark P.50

Green lamp P.50

Orange lamp P.50

The arrow pad is used as arrow keys, as well as function buttons. The , ,

, and marks indicate which arrow key to press.

Playback button

()

P.26

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