Subjects That Are Difficult To Focus On; The Picture Is Too Grainy - Olympus SP-560 Instruction Manual

Subjects that are difficult to focus on

• Under certain types of conditions, it is difficult to focus using auto focus. The green lamp
on the monitor lights, allowing you to check if the focus is locked.
The green lamp
blinks.
The subject cannot be
brought into focus.
The green lamp lights,
but the subject cannot
be brought into focus.
In these cases, focus (focus lock) on an object with high contrast at the same distance as
the intended subject, recompose your shot and then take the picture. If the subject has
no vertical lines, hold the camera vertically and focus the camera using the focus lock
function by pressing the shutter button halfway, and then return the camera to the
horizontal position while keeping the button pressed halfway and take the picture.
Prevent blur by using image stabilization
Be sure to hold the camera firmly with both hands and press the shutter button slowly so as to avoid
moving the camera. To correct the digital image, take pictures with h pressed and set [hON].
Pictures are more likely to be blurry when:
• images are shot at a high-magnification zoom setting, i.e. using both optical zoom and
digital zoom functions,
• the object is dark and the shutter speed is slow, or
• the flash cannot be used or when a low shutter speed set s mode is selected.
Taking stabilized pictures without the flash
To take pictures in low light places without flash, set the following after setting the flash mode to [$]
(Flash off).
Increase the [ISO] setting
g "ISO Changing the ISO sensitivity" (P.26)

The picture is too grainy

There are several factors that can cause the picture to appear grainy.
Using the digital zoom to take close-up pictures
• With the digital zoom, part of the image is cropped and enlarged. The greater the
magnification, the grainier the picture appears.
g "DIGITAL ZOOM Zooming in on your subject" (P.28)
Increasing the ISO sensitivity
• When you increase the [ISO] setting, "noise", which appears as spots of unwanted color
or unevenness in the color, can be introduced and give the picture a grainy appearance.
This camera is equipped with a function to allow shooting at high sensitivity while
suppressing noise; however, increasing the ISO sensitivity creates grainier pictures than
when using a lower sensitivity.
g "ISO Changing the ISO sensitivity" (P.26)
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Subject with low Subject with an
contrast extremely bright area in
the center of the frame
Subjects at Fast-moving
different distances subject
Subject without
vertical lines
The subject is not
in the center of the
frame