Canon PowerShot A610, PowerShot A620 Basic User Guide

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Basic

Preparation

Shooting

Playback/Erasing

Menus and Settings

Printing

Downloading Images to a Computer

Camera User Guide

Please Read This First

This guide explains how to prepare the camera and use its basic features.

Flowchart and Reference Guides

The following guides are available. Refer to them as necessary according to the flowchart below.

For information on included items

and items sold separately

System Map

• Installing the batteries and memory card

• Opening the LCD monitor

• Setting the date, time and language

Handling precautions, references to

the various shooting and playback

• Installing the software

• Downloading images to a computer

• Using the software

Preparations

Shooting

Playback/Erasing

Menus and Settings

functions

Printing

Basic Camera User Guide (This Guide)

• Read this first.

Advanced Camera User Guide

Direct Print User Guide

Basic Camera User Guide (This Guide)

Software Starter Guide

ZoomBrowser EX/ ImageBrowser Software User Guide

• PDF manuals available on the Canon website. http://web.canon.jp/ Imaging/information- e.html

In this guide, the Basic Camera User Guide is called the Basic Guide, and the Advanced Camera User Guide is called the Advanced Guide.

Preparations

Installing the batteries.

1. Slide the battery cover lock in the direction of the arrow and open the cover.

2. Insert the supplied 4 AA-size alkaline batteries, or separately sold AA-size NiMH batteries.

Negative end (–)

Positive end (+)

Preparations

3. Close the battery cover.

Inserting the Memory Card.

1. Slide the memory card slot cover in the direction of the arrow and open it.

2. Insert the memory card until it clicks into place.

3. Close the memory card slot cover.

Ensure that the memory card is correctly oriented before inserting it in the camera. It may damage the camera if inserted incorrectly.

Î See the Advanced Guide: Battery Handling (p. 105)

Î See the Advanced Guide: Handling the Memory Card (p. 107)

Î See the Advanced Guide: Formatting Memory Cards (p. 21)

 To Remove the Memory Card

Use a finger to push the memory card in until you hear a click, then release it.

You can use SD* memory cards and MultiMediaCards with this camera. These cards are collectively called memory cards in this guide.

* SD stands for Secure Digital, a copyright protection system.

First Time Settings

 Opening the LCD Monitor

The LCD monitor can be used to check an image during shooting, to play back recorded images or to adjust menu settings. It can be opened to the following range of positions.

1. Opened right to left 180 degrees.

2. Tilted forward 180 degrees toward the lens or backward 90 degrees.

When tilted forward 180 degrees toward the lens, the image shown on the LCD monitor is automatically flipped and reversed so that it appears correctly from in front of the lens.

* This reverse display function can be turned off.

Î See the Advanced Guide: Rec. Menu (p. 24)

3. Close the LCD monitor with the LCD monitor facing out.

When the LCD monitor clicks into place against the camera body, the image will return to its original, non- reversed orientation.

Î See the Advanced Guide: Using the LCD Monitor (p. 15)

When not using the camera, close the LCD monitor with the monitor facing in to protect it. The LCD monitor will automatically turn off when it clicks shut against the camera body.

Preparations

 Setting the Date/Time

1. Press the power button (a).

2. Use the or button to select an item and the or

button to change its value (b).

3. Confirm that the correct time is displayed and press the

FUNC./SET button (c).

The date and time can also be set in the Set up menu (p. 13).

• A rechargeable lithium battery is built into the camera to save such settings as the date/time. This battery charges when the main batteries are in the camera. When you purchase the camera, place the main batteries in it for approximately four hours or use AC Adapter Kit ACK600 (sold separately) to charge the lithium battery. It will charge even if the camera is turned off.

• The date/time settings may be lost after approximately three weeks if you remove the main batteries. Reset the date/time settings if this occurs.

 Setting the Display Language

1. Set the mode switch to (playback).

2. Hold down the FUNC./SET button and press the MENU button.

3. Use the , press the FUNC./SET button.

The display language can also be set in the Set up menu (p. 13).

, or button to select a language and

Shooting

Press the power button.

The start-up sound will play and the start-up image will display in the LCD monitor.

• Pressing the power button again turns the power off.

• To switch to the setting that mutes all sounds (except for the warning sound), press and hold the MENU button while pressing the power button.

Î See the Advanced Guide: Power Saving Function (p. 20)

Î See the Advanced Guide: Set up Menu (p. 25)

Î See the Advanced Guide: My Camera Menu (p. 27)

Set the mode switch to (shooting).

Set the shooting mode dial to (Auto).

Aim the camera at the subject.

Focus and shoot.

1. Press the shutter button halfway to

focus.

When the camera focuses, the camera beeps twice and the indicator lights green.

2. Press the shutter button fully to shoot.

The shutter sound will play and the image will record. The indicator will blink green while the image is recorded to the memory card.

Power button

Indicators

Shooting

Î See Basic Shooting Functions (p. 6).

Î See the Advanced Guide: Indicators (p. 20)

See the Advanced Guide for the various shooting methods

available.

Reviewing an Image Right After Shooting

After a shot is taken, the image appears in the LCD monitor for approximately 2 seconds. You can continue to display images regardless of the review duration setting with the following procedures.

• Keeping the shutter button pressed after a shot.

• Pressing the FUNC./SET button while the image is displayed in the LCD monitor.

To stop displaying the image, press the shutter button halfway.

Î See the Advanced Guide: Review (p. 24)

Basic Shooting Functions

 Selecting a Shooting Mode

1. Set the shooting mode dial to the desired mode (a).

In the and modes, use the or button (b) to select a shooting mode.

Creative zone

Auto

Image zone

 Shooting Modes

AUTO

Image zone

The camera automatically selects settings.

Allows you to shoot using settings automatically selected by the camera which suit the conditions of the subject.

Portrait

Blurs the background and makes a person stand out.

Night scene

Allows you to capture human subjects against the backdrop of an evening sky or night scene. The flash is directed at the person and the shutter speed is slow, so both the person and the background can be beautifully shot.

Landscape

Shoots spacious landscape scenes.

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