Olympus C5000 - 5MP Digital Camera Manuale utente

DIGITAL CAMERA

C-5000ZOOM

REFERENCE MANUAL

Explanation of digital camera functions and operating instructions.

Explanation of how to download images between your digital camera and PC.

DIGITAL CAMERA - PC CONNECTION

OPERATION MANUAL

CAMERA OPERATION MANUAL

Thank 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.

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

camera before taking important photographs.

In the interest of continually improving products, Olympus reserves the

right to update or modify information contained in this manual.

DIGITAL CAMERA

C-5000ZOOM

REFERENCE MANUAL

For customers in North and South America

For customers in Europe

Trademarks

• IBM is a registered trademark of International Business Machines Corporation.

• Microsoft and Windows are registered trademarks of Microsoft Corporation.

• Macintosh is a trademark of Apple Computer Inc.

• All other company and product names are registered trademarks and/or

trademarks of their respective owners.

• 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 : C-5000ZOOM

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

Composition of the manual

Advanced Photography

To get that particular shot

using various effects or for

fine-tuning the settings.

Getting started

Using the menus

Shooting basics

Flash

Advanced shooting

Adjusting the image quality

and exposure

Useful functions

Print setting

Miscellaneous

For playing back and editing

pictures

Settings that make the

camera easier to operate.

Printing pictures

Troubleshooting and other

information

Contents

Names of parts

P.4

P.10

P.17

P.32

P.41

P.56

P.68

P.91

P.105

P.121

P.144

P.151

Playback

Basic Photography

Introduction of the

camera’s functions

Specifications

Glossary of terms

P.172

P.174

Index P.178

Contents

Composition of the manual . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3

Names of parts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

Camera . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

Monitor indications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12

Memory gauge . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

Battery check . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

How to use this manual . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

1 Getting started 17

Attaching the strap. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

Battery/Card basics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18

Charging the battery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18

Card basics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20

Inserting and removing the battery and card. . . . . . . . . . . 20

Using the AC adapter (optional) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

Power on/off . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24

If the card is not recognized (card check) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26

Selecting a language . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27

Setting the date and time . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29

Holding the camera . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31

2 Using the menus 32

About the menus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32

How to use the menus. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33

Shortcut menus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35

Mode Menus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37

3 Shooting basics 41

Shooting modes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41

Taking still pictures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45

Taking still pictures using the monitor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45

Taking still pictures using the viewfinder. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47

Comparison of the viewfinder & monitor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49

If correct focus cannot be obtained . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50

Using the Focus Lock function . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50

Subjects that are difficult to focus on . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51

Recording movies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52

Zoom . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54

Using the optical zoom . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54

DIGITAL ZOOM – Using the digital zoom . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55

4 Flash 56

Flash shooting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56

Using the slow synchronization flash . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62

Flash intensity control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63

External flash (optional). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64

Using the external flash. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64

Using commercially available external flashes . . . . . . . . . 66

Compatible commercially available external flashes. . . . . 67

5 Advanced shooting 68

A/S/M mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68

Aperture priority shooting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69

Shutter priority shooting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70

Manual shooting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71

Focusing applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72

AF AREA – Changing the position of the AF target mark. . . 72

Manual focus. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73

Metering . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75

Spot metering . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75

AE LOCK – Locking the exposure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76

Macro mode shooting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78

Super macro mode shooting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79

Self-timer shooting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80

Remote control shooting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81

Sequential shooting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83

Sequential shooting and AF sequential shooting

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83

Auto bracketing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84

PANORAMA – Panorama shooting. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86

2 IN 1 – Taking two-in-one pictures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88

FUNCTION – Adding special effects to pictures . . . . . . . . . . . 90

Adjusting the image quality and exposure

Record mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91

Selecting a record mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93

ISO sensitivity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95

Exposure compensation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96

White balance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97

Auto white balance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98

Preset white balance. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98

One-touch white balance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98

White balance adjustment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100

SHARPNESS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101

CONTRAST . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102

SATURATION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103

NOISE REDUCTION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104

7 Playback 105

Viewing still pictures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105

QUICK VIEW. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106

Picture rotation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107

Close-up playback . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108

Index display . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109

Selecting the number of pictures. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110

Slideshow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111

Viewing movies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112

INDEX - Creating an index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114

Playback on a TV . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116

Editing still pictures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117

Protecting pictures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118

Erasing pictures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119

Single-frame erase . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119

All-frame erase . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120

8 Useful functions 121

ALL RESET – Saving the camera’s settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121

CUSTOM BUTTON . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123

Setting the custom button . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124

Using the custom button . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125

SHORT CUT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126

Setting the shortcut menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127

Using the shortcut menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128

MY MODE SETUP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129

CARD SETUP – Formatting Cards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132

Information display . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134

Monitor brightness Adjustment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135

REC VIEW. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136

SLEEP – Sleep Timer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137

Beep – Setting the warning tone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138

POWER ON/OFF SETUP – Power on/off display setting . . . 139

FILE NAME – Choosing how file names are created . . . . . . 140

PIXEL MAPPING – Checking the image . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141

m/ft – Selecting the measurement units . . . . . . . . . . . 142

VIDEO OUT – Selecting the video signal type . . . . . . . . . . . 143

9 Print setting 144

With print reservation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144

All-frame reservation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146

Single-frame reservation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147

Resetting print reservation data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149

10 Miscellaneous 151

Error codes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151

Troubleshooting. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152

List of menus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 158

List of factory default settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164

Modes and Shooting Functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167

Camera maintenance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 170

Specifications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 172

Glossary of terms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 174

Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 178

Indications used in this manual

Important information on factors which may lead to a

malfunction or operational problems. Also warns of operations

that should be absolutely avoided.

Useful information and hints that will help you get the most out

of your camera.

Reference pages describing details or associated information.

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