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What are these functions? I just recently bought my first camera ever - a digital from Pentax - unfortunately the user guide is very much not user friendly. I would like to know what certain functions are for as the guide just shows how to select them without mention of what theyre used for. The "Flower", the "mountain", "MF" (assuming is manual focus), the eye with an A, the eye with a lightning bolt and "Exp.comp.memory", "AE Metering - 3 different settings". I would appreciate if you could help me understand all this as Pentax hasn't been able to prove themself user friendly. Marc Gravel
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Jon Close |
These items are explained in the manual. You can download Pentax manuals from their website, http://www.pentax.com/docstore/index.cfm?show=6 Looking at the manual for the Optio 230 as an example, the meaning of the Flower/Mountain/MF focus options is adequately explained on pages 52-53, EV Compensation and "Exp. comp. memory" on page 54, the various eye/lightning symbols for the flash are explained on page 55, and the AE metering on page 61. Why you would want to choose one setting over another are questions of photographic technique that are beyond the scope of a camera user manual.
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Jon Close |
I guess I could be a little more helpful. With respect to focus modes, normally you'd just be in auto. Macro or very close focusing requires greater movement of the lens elements than for other distances. To speed normal autofocus function the macro focusing mode is separated. When taking landscapes you want the distant objects to be in focus, so setting the landscape focus function prohibits the camera's AF circuits from locking on a closer object. You would use manual focus when you don't want to leave the selection of the focus object to the camera circuits, or if light is too low for AF to work, or there is a window or screen between you and your subject that would confuse the AF focus. The built-in flash is very close to the lens, which contributes to "red-eye" in flash pictures. You can select the red-eye reduction feature that makes a pre-flash to get people's iris to close down a little before the picture is taken, or turn the flash off. AE (auto exposure) metering us usually pretty good, but there are times when it will be confused by the lighting of a scene and you may want to override it with exposure compensation (adding more or less exposure than the meter is reading).
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