Operating The Camera - BenQ S1420 Series User Manual

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8 Operating the camera

Operating the camera
The procedure below is a general guideline for basic operation. It is particularly useful if you
are new to the camera.
1. Press the Power button to turn the power on.
2. Slide the mode switch to
desired options (under two different tabs:
make selections.
Remember to follow the on-screen display or slide to
available). Next, press corresponding buttons to access and set more options. At any time, you
can cancel the current operation by pressing
3. Slide to
to zoom-in or
4. Press the shutter halfway to set automatic focus. Once the focus is set, the focus frame
color will turn from white (unfocused) to green (focused). If the focus frame color is red and
you press the shutter down, it might result in a blurred photo.
5. Press the shutter down fully to capture.
6. Release the shutter.
7. Slide the mode switch to
zoom as needed and press the shutter down to start video recording (press the shutter
again to stop video recording).
8. Slide the mode switch to
press
, or
out a captured image, or slide to
• During zoom-in/out, there is a separator in the zoom bar between
best image quality, it is recommended to use optical zoom only by keeping the
magnification within
• Flash is automatically turned off in the Movie Record mode.
• The Movie Record mode records both sound and video. The recording time is
continuous, but recording will stop once the memory card space is full.
• In the Movie Record mode, sound is temporarily muted during zoom-in/out.
• At any time, you can press the Power button to turn off the camera.
• In Capture or Playback mode, press
screen.
and press
to zoom-out.
and enter the Movie Record mode. Next, adjust the optical
and view captured images or recorded videos. You can
to move to different images/videos, slide to press
to view 9 images on the screen.
and the separator.
Optical Zoom
>
,
and
), and then press
for instructions (wherever
to return to your previous step.
to decide what information to show on the
Digital Zoom
,
, or
to locate
or
to
or
to zoom-in/
and
. For

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