Setting The Flash - Ricoh Caplio RR330 User Manual

Setting the Flash

The flash is designed to function automatically when lighting conditions warrant the use of flash. You can take an image
using a flash mode suitable to your circumstances.
1.
Set the mode dial to the 5 mode or the M5 mode.
By default, your camera is set to [Flash Off].
2.
Press the F button repeatedly until your desired flash mode appears
on the LCD monitor.
3.
Compose the image and press the shutter button.
The camera has five flash modes: Automatic Flash, Red-Eye Reduction, Slow Sync, Forced Flash (On) and Flash Off. The
table below will help choose the appropriate flash mode:
Flash mode Description
The flash fires automatically according to the ambient lighting conditions. Select this
Auto flash
mode for general photography.
"Red-eye" (when the eyes of people in photographs are red) happens when people are photographed in
Red-eye
dark places using a flash, and is caused by the light of the flash reflecting the eyes. In this flash mode, the
reduction
flash is emitted automatically according to the conditions and red-eye is reduced. Red-eye reduction is
most effective when the people being photographed are looking into the camera, and when you photo-
graph from as close as possible.
The flash is fired at a slower shutter speed.
Slow Sync
This flash mode is effective when taking pictures so that not only the subject but also the background are
both clearly reproduced in artificial light (backlighting, fluorescent lighting, etc.) or with people against the
night as a background scene.
Use of a tripod is recommended with this feature.
The flash will always fire regardless of the surrounding brightness. Select this mode for recording images
Forced flash
with high contrast (backlighting) and deep shadows.
The flash will not fire. Select this mode when taking images in a place where flash photography is prohib-
Flash off
ited, or when the distance to the subject is beyond the effective range of the flash.
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