Taking Pictures Of A Subject Against Backlight; Additional Shooting Tips And Information; Increasing The Number Of Pictures That Can Be Taken - Olympus Stylus 740 Instruction Manual

Taking pictures of a subject against backlight

• With [ESP/n] set to [n], the picture can be taken based on the brightness at the
center of the monitor without being affected by the light in the background.
g "ESP/n Changing the area for measuring the brightness of a subject" (P. 20)
• Set the flash to [#] to activate fill-in-flash. You can shoot a subject against backlight without
the face of the subject appearing dark. [#] is effective for shooting against backlight and
under fluorescent and other artificial lightening.
g "3# button Flash shooting" (P. 13)

Additional shooting tips and information

Increasing the number of pictures that can be taken

There are two ways to record the pictures you take with this camera.
Recording pictures to the internal memory
• Pictures are recorded to the internal memory, and when the number of storable still
pictures reaches 0, you must connect the camera to a computer to download the
pictures, and then erase the pictures from the internal memory.
Using a card (optional)
• Pictures are recorded to the card when inserted in the camera. When the card is full, you
download the pictures to a computer, and then either erase the pictures from the card or
use a new card.
• Pictures are not recorded to the internal memory when a card is inserted in the camera.
Pictures in the internal memory can be copied to the card using the [BACKUP] function.
g "BACKUP Copying pictures in the internal memory to the card" (P. 30)
"The card" (P. 63)
Number of storable still pictures and recording length of movies
Still pictures
Image quality
SHQ
HQ
SQ1
SQ2
54
EN
Image size
With sound
3072 × 2304
3072 × 2304
2560 × 1920
2304 × 1728
2048 × 1536
1600 × 1200
1280 × 960
1024 × 768
640 × 480
Number of storable still pictures
Internal memory
Without With sound
sound
5 5
10 10
14 14
17 17
21 22
26 27
39 42
58 65
88 105
Using a 512 MB card
Without
sound
145 147
287 293
409 420
499 515
626 652
743 779
1141 1229
1681 1879
2458 2905