Canon Gx 9 E Manual
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Camera User Guide Camera User Guide CDI-E328-010 XX07NiXX © 2007 CANON INC. PRINTED IN JAPAN ENGLISH DIGITAL CAMERA Ensure that you read the Safety Precautions (pp. 224–229). Getting Started Learning MoreComponents Guide Basic Operations Commonly Used Shooting Functions Shooting Using the Mode Dial Advanced Shooting Functions Playback/Erasing Print Settings/Transfer Settings Connecting a TV set Customizing the Camera Troubleshooting List of Messages Appendix
Workflow and Reference Guides The following guides are available. Refer to them as necessary according to the flowchart below. : This Guide Camera User Guide Camera User Guide Learning More Prepare the camera for use • Connecting to a printer • Connecting to a TV set • Connecting to a computerDirect Print User Guide Software Starter Guide ZoomBrowser EX/ ImageBrowser Software User Guide • PDF manuals available on the Canon website. Camera User Guide Learn more about the camera Getting Started Using the camera Confirming the package contents Connect the camera to other devices http://web.canon.jp/Imaging/information-e.html
Confirming the Package Contents1 Confirming the Package Contents Your camera package includes all of the following items. If any of these items are missing, please contact the dealer for assistance. You may not be able to achieve the full performance of this camera with the included memory card. You can use SD memory cards, SDHC memory cards, MultiMediaCards, MMCplus cards and HC MMCplus cards with this camera. These cards are collectively called memory cards in this guide. ab def ghi Digital Camera Battery Pack NB-2LH (With Terminal Cover) Memory Card (32MB) Interface Cable IFC-400PCU AV Cable AVC-DC300 Neck Strap NS-DC6 Warranty Card Canon Digital Camera Solution Disk • Camera User Guide • Direct Print User Guide • Software Starter Guide • “Canon Customer Support” Leaflet • “Use of Genuine Canon Accessories Recommended” Leaflet User Guides c Battery Charger CB-2LW/CB-2LWE j
Table of Contents2 Table of Contents Items marked with a are lists or charts that summarize camera functions or procedures.Please Read . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Components Guide 40 Using the Control Dial . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43 Indicators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44 Power Saving Function . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45 Basic Operations 46 Menus and Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46 Menus and Default Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48 Switching between Shooting Mode and Playback Mode . . 54 Using the LCD Monitor. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55 LCD Monitor Brightness . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56 Customizing Display Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57 Information Displayed on the LCD Monitor . . . . . . . . . . . . 59 Setting the World Clock . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65 Resetting Settings to Their Default Values . . . . . . . . . . . . 68 Learning More Preparations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 Shooting Still Images ( Auto Mode) . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 Viewing Still Images . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 Shooting Movies ( Standard Mode) . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 Viewing Movies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 Erasing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 Printing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 Downloading Images to a Computer . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 System Map . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 Getting Started
Table of Contents3 Formatting Memory Cards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69 Commonly Used Shooting Functions 70 Using the Optical Zoom . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70 Using the Digital Zoom/Digital Tele-Converter . . . . . . . . . 71 Using the Flash . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74 Shooting Close-ups (Macro) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75 Using the Self-Timer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76 Changing the Recording Pixels and Compression (Still Images) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78 Changing the Image Type . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80 Setting the Image Stabilizer Function . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82 Adjusting the ISO Speed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84 Checking the Focus and Peoples’ Expressions (Focus Check) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86 Shooting Using the Mode Dial 88 Mode Dial. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88 Shooting Modes for Specific Scenes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89 Program AE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93 Setting the Shutter Speed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94 Setting the Aperture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96 Manually Setting the Shutter Speed and Aperture . . . 98 Shooting Panoramic Images (Stitc h Assist) . . . . . . . 100 Movie Shooting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102 Setting the Recording Functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108 Saving Custom Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109 Advanced Shooting Functions 111 Continuous Shooting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111 Setting the Red-Eye Reduction Function. . . . . . . . . . . . . 113 Setting the Slow Synchro. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114 Switching between Focus Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115 Selecting an AF Frame Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116 Shooting Hard-to-Focus Subjec ts (Focus Lock, AF Lock, Manual Focus, Safety MF) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123 Focus Bracketing (Focus-BKT Mode) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127
Table of Contents4 Locking the Exposure Setting (AE Lock) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128 Shooting with FE Lock . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130 Auto Exposure Bracketing (AEB Mode) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131 Using the ND Filter. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132 Reducing the Effects of Camera Shake (Auto ISO Shift). 133Adjusting the Exposure Compensation . . . . . . . . . . . . 135 Switching between Metering Modes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136 Adjusting the Tone (White Balance) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137 Shooting in a My Colors Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140 Changing the Colors and Shooting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143 Switching between Flash Adjustment Settings . . . . . . . . 148 Compensating the Flash Adjustment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149 Setting the Flash Output . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150 Switching the Timing at which the Flash Fires . . . . . . . . . 151 Adjusting Exposure for Built-in Flash Shooting (Safety FE) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152 Registering Settings to the Shortcut Button . . . . . . . . 153 Setting the Auto Rotate Function . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155 Creating an Image Destination (Folder) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 156 Resetting the File Number . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 158 Playback/Erasing 160 Viewing Magnified Images. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 160 Viewing Images in Sets of Ni ne (Index Playback) . . . 161 Checking the Focus and Peoples’ Expressions (Focus Check Display) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 162 Jumping to Images . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165 Organizing Images by Category (My Category). . . . . . . . 167 Viewing Movies (Operating the Movie Control Panel) . . . 170 Editing Movies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 172 Rotating Images in the Display . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 174 Playback with Transition Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175 Automated Playback (Slide Shows) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 176 Red-Eye Correction Function. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 180 Adding My Colors Effects. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185 Resizing Images . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187
Table of Contents5 Attaching Sound Memos to Images . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189 Sound-Only Recording (Sound Recorder) . . . . . . . . . . . . 190 Protecting Images . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 192 Erasing Images . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195 Print Settings/Transfer Settings 198 Setting the DPOF Print Setting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 198 Setting the DPOF Transfer Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 203 Connecting a TV set 205 Viewing Images on a TV set . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 205 Customizing the Camera (My Camera Settings) 207 Changing My Camera Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 207 Registering My Camera Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 208 Troubleshooting 210 List of Messages 220 Appendix 224 Safety Precautions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 224 Preventing Malfunctions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 229 Battery Handling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 229 Handling the Memory Card . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 232 Using the Power Kits (Sold Separately). . . . . . . . . . . . . . 234 Using the Lenses (Sold Separately) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 236 Using an Externally Mounted Flash (Sold Separately) . . 242 Using an Externally Mounted Flash (Sold Separately) . . 249 Camera Care and Maintenance. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 251 Specifications. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 252 INDEX 264 Functions Available in Each Shooting Mode 270
6 „ Symbol Conventions in this Guide: This mark denotes issues that may affect the camera’soperation. : This mark denotes additional topi cs that complement the basic operating procedures. Explanations in this guide are based on the camera’s default settings at time of purchase. Advanced Shooting Functions131 See Functions Available in Each Shooting Mode (p. 286). In this mode, the camera automatically changes the exposure within a set range to take three shots as the same interval as continuous shooting (p. 111). The images are shot in the following order: Standard exposure, underexposure and overexposure. Auto Exposure Bracketing (AEB Mode) Shooting Mode 1Select AEB.1.Press the button. 2. Use the or button to select and use the or button to select . 3. Press the button. 2Adjust the compensation range. 1.Adjust the compensation range with the or button. 2. Press the button. Mode: Shooting ( )/ Playback ( ) Available shooting modes These modes are available. These modes are not available.
Please Read7 Please Read Test ShotsBefore you try to photograph important subjects, we highly recommend that you shoot several trial images to confirm that the camera is operating and being operated correctly. Please note that Canon Inc., its subsidiaries and affiliates, and its distributors are not liable for any consequential damages arising from any malfunction of a camera or ac cessory, including memory cards, that results in the failure of an image to be recorded or to be recorded in a way that is machine readable. Warning Against Copyright InfringementPlease note that Canon digital came ras are intended for personal use and should never be used in a manner that infringes upon or contravenes international or domesti c copyright laws and regulations. Please be advised that in certain cases the copying of images from performances, exhibitions, or comme rcial properties by means of a camera or other device may contrav ene copyright or other legal rights even if the image was shot for personal use. Warranty LimitationsThis camera’s warranty is only effe ctive in the country of sale. If a problem arises while the camera is in use abroad, please convey it back to the country of sale before proceeding with a warranty claim to a Canon Customer Support Help Desk. For Canon Customer Support contacts, please see the customer support list supplied with your camera.
Please Read8 Video Format Please set the camera’s video signal format to the one used in your region before using it with a TV monitor (p. 205). Language Setting Please see Setting the Display Language (p. 15) to change the language setting. Camera Body Temperature If your camera is used for prolonged periods, the camera body may become warm. Please be aware of this and take care when operating the camera for an extended period. About the LCD Monitor The LCD monitor is produced wi th extremely high-precision manufacturing techniques. More than 99.99% of the pixels operate to specification. Less than 0.01% of the pixels may occasionally misfire or appear as red or black dots. This has no effect on the recorded image and does not constitute a malfunction.