Fujifilm Camera Finepix S8400w Owners Manual

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More on Photography
 The Fn Button
The role played by the Fn button can be selected using the  F Fn BUT TON  
option in the setup menu ( P 10 6).  
The following options are available: 
ISO  (P  84)/ IMAGE SIZE  (P  84)/ IMAGE QUALITY  (P  85)/ WHITE BALANCE ( P 86)/
FINEPIX COLOR  (P  86)/ PHOTOMETRY  (P  87)/ AF MODE ( P 88)/ FACE DETECTION  (P  35)/
INSTANT ZOOM  (P  44)/ LOCATION INFO SEARCH ( P 
63)/GEOTAGGING  (P 64)/
MOVIE MODE ( P 83)
 Fn button
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The  F Fn BUT TON  menu can also be displayed...

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I Continuous Shooting (Burst Mode)
Capture motion or automatically vary selected settings over a series of pictures.
Press the I button and choose 
from the following options:
OFF : OFF
r  : r CONTINUOUS
t  : t CONTINUOUS
P : BEST FRAME CAPTURE
O : O CONTINUOUS
K : K CONTINUOUS
J : J CONTINUOUS
O : AE BKT c 
•  Focus and exposure are determined by the first frame 
in each series.  The flash turns off automatically; the 
previously-selected flash mode is restored when con-
tinuous shooting is turned...

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I Continuous Shooting (Burst Mode)
■■  PP BEST FRAME CAPTURE BEST FRAME CAPTURE
The camera takes a series of pictures, starting 
before and ending after the shutter button is 
pressed.  To choose the frame rate and number 
of shots:
1 Press the selector right when the  camera is in shooting mode.
2  Highlight the current frame rate and press the selector right, then press 
selector up or down to choose a 
new value and press  MENU/OK to se-
lect.
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Some frame rates may reduce the...

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I Continuous Shooting (Burst Mode)
5  Take photographs.  The camera begins record-ing while the shutter button is pressed half-
way, and completes the burst when the shut-
ter button is pressed all the way down.  The 
illustration shows a burst of eight shots, three 
before the shutter button is pressed and four 
after.
Shutter button
pressed halfway Shutter button
pressed all the way down
“Af ter ”shots
“Before” shots
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•  If the shutter button is pressed all the way down be- fore the number of...

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 d Exposure Compensation
Use exposure compensation when photographing very bright, very dark, or high-contrast subjects.
 1 Press the d button.
The exposure indicator will be displayed.
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 Exposure  indicator
 2  Choose a value. Rotate the command dial.  The ef-
fect is visible in the display.
Choose negative values  to reduce exposure 
(“–” sign turns yellow)Choose positive values to  increase exposure 
(“+” sign turns yellow)
 3  Return to shooting mode. Press the d...

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d Exposure Compensation
 Choosing an Exposure Compensation Value
•  Backlit subjects : choose values from +2/3 EV to +12/3 EV
• Highly reflective subjects or very bright scenes  (e.g., snowfields): +1 EV
• Scenes that are mostly sky : +1 EV 
•  Spotlit subjects  (particularly if photographed against dark backgrounds): –2/3 EV
•  Subjects with low reflectivity  (pine trees or dark-colored foliage): –2/3 EV 

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More on Playback
 Playback  Options
 To view the most recent picture in the monitor, 
press the a button.
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Press the selector right to view pictures 
in the order recorded, left to view pic-
tures in reverse order.  Keep the selector 
pressed to scroll rapidly to the desired 
frame.
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 Pictures taken using other cameras are indicated by a 
m (“gift image”) icon during playback.
 Playback Zoom Playback  Zoom
Select T to zoom in on pictures displayed in sin-
gle-frame playback; select W...

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Playback Options
 Intelligent Face Detection
Pictures taken with Intelligent 
Face Detection ( P 35) are indi-
cated by a  g icon.  Press the 
f button to zoom in on the 
subject selected with Intelli-
gent Face Detection.  You can 
then use the zoom control to zoom in and out.
BACK
ZOOM
 I I Favorites: Rating Pictures Favorites: Rating Pictures
To rate the picture currently displayed in full-frame 
playback, press  DISP/BACK and press the selector 
up and down to select from zero to five stars.
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Playback Options
 Multi-Frame Playback Multi-Frame  Playback
To change the number of images dis-
played during playback, select W.
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Select W to 
increase the 
number of pictures  displayed to one 
frame with previ-
ous and next, two, 
nine, or a hundred.Select T to reduce 
the number of im-
ages displayed.
Use the selector to highlight images and press 
MENU/OK  to view the highlighted image full frame. 
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If you press the selector down when a panorama is displayed full frame, the camera will play back the 
picture from left to right or from bottom to top.
PLAY
STOPPAUSE
The following operations can be performed during playback:
OperationOperationButtonButtonDescriptionDescription
Star t /pause  playback
Press the selector down to start playback.  Press again to pause.
End playback
Press the selector up to end playback.
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Once displayed in full-frame playback, panoramas can be zoomed in or out using...