Olympus CAMEDIA C-5060 wide zoom Reference Manual page 68

Taking still pictures
Note
Press the shutter button gentty using the ball of your finger If it is
pressed hard, the camera may move and pictures may come oat
bIurred
Recorded pictures wili be saved on the card regardless of whether
the camera is turned off or the battery is replaced or removed
Never open the card cover, remove the battery or connect/
disconnect the AC adapter while the card access lamp is blinking
Doing so could destroy stored pictures and prevent storage of
pictures you have just taken.
When taking pictures against strong backlight, the area of the
picture in shadow may appear colored
When you point the camera lens toward a bright subject, smears
(fines like beams of fight) may appear on the image in the monitor.
This does not affect recorded pictures
Comparison of the viewfinder & monitor
Viewfinder Monitor
Advantages Camera movement does You can check the picture area
not occur easily and that the camera actually records
subjects can be seen more accurately.
clearly even in bright
places.
Little battery power is
used.
Disadvantages When close to a subject, Camera movement can occur
the image in the easily and subjects may be
viewfinder is a little difficult to see in bright/dark
different from the picture places. The monitor uses more
that the camera actually battery power than the
records, viewfinder.
Tips Use the viewfinder for Use the monitor when you want
general snapshots to shoot while checking the
(landscape pictures, picture area that the camera
casual shots, etc.), actually records, or take pictures
(Approx. 0.8 m/2.6 ft. to when the subject is less than 0.8
oo} m/2.6 ft. away, such as close-up
shots of people or flowers (macro
shooting).
I _,_, • The camera records a wider area than the image in the
1 viewfinder.
As you get closer to the subject, the actual image recorded
becomes lower than the one in the viewfinder (see left)
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