Casio EX-M20 User's Guide Part 3

PLAYBACK

You can use the camera’s built-in monitor screen to view images after you record them.

Basic Playback Operation

Use the following procedure to scroll through files stored in the camera’s memory.

Press the power button to turn on the camera.

• This causes an image or a message to appear on the monitor screen.

Align the mode selector with “ ” (PLAY).

• This enters the PLAY mode.

Power button

ON/OFF

Mode selector

Use [] (forward) or [] (back) to scroll through files on the monitor screen.

NOTES

• Holding down [] or [] scrolls images at high speed.

• In order to allow for faster playback image scrolling, the image that initially appears on the monitor screen is a preview image, which is of somewhat lower quality than the actual display image. The actual display image appears a short while after the preview image. This does not apply to images copied from another digital camera.

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Playing an Audio Snapshot (EX-M20 Only)

Perform the steps below to display an audio snapshot (indicated by a indicator) and play its audio.

In the PLAY mode, use [] and [] until the image you want is displayed.

Press [SET].

• This plays back the audio that accompanies the displayed image.

• You can perform the following operations while audio is playing.

To do this: Fast forward or fast reverse

the audio Pause and unpause audio

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Adjust audio volume

Cancel playback

Do this:

Hod down [] or [].

Press [SET].

Press [] or [].

Press [MENU].

IMPORTANT!

• Audio volume can be adjusted only when playback is being performed or is paused.

• When you have the LCD remote controller connected to the camera, audio is output through the stereo headphones (page 160) instead of the camera’s speaker. Output through the headphones is monaural.

• The volume of audio recorded with the camera cannot be adjusted using the LCD remote controller. Use the camera’s controller to adjust volume level in this case.

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Flipping the Display

The following procedure flips the image 180 degrees. This comes in handy when you want to show someone standing in front of you an image on the monitor screen.

[SET]

DISP

Shutter release button

DISP

In the PLAY mode, use [] and [] to scroll through images on the monitor screen and display the one you want.

Press the shutter release button and [SET] at the same time.

• This flips the image 180 degrees. The histogram or any other display information you had displayed is cleared automatically whenever you flip the image.

• While an image is flipped, you can use [] and [] to scroll to another image, if you want.

To return the image to its normal orientation, press any button other than [], [], [], or [].

IMPORTANT!

• Note that you cannot play a movie, an audio snapshot (EX-M20 only), or a voice recording file (EX-M20 only) on the monitor screen while a flipped image is displayed.

• You cannot use the above procedure to flip an image while a zoomed image, calendar screen image, a movie image, an audio snapshot (EX-M20 only), or a voice recording file image (EX-M20 only) is on the display.

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Zooming the Display Image

Perform the following procedure to zoom the image currently on the monitor screen up to four times its normal size.

In the PLAY mode, use [] and [] to display the image you want.

Press [] ( ) to enlarge the image.

• This displays an indicator that shows the current zoom factor.

Current zoom factor

To scroll the image on the display, press [SET], and then press [], [], [], or [].

• To display the indicator for further zooming, press [SET] again.

Press [MENU] to return the image to its original size.

IMPORTANT!

• You cannot enlarge a movie image.

• Depending on the original size of the recorded

image, you may not be able to zoom a display image the full four times its normal size.

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Resizing an Image

You can use the following procedure to change a snapshot image to either SXGA size (1280 x 960 pixels) or VGA size (640 x 480 pixels).

• VGA is the optimum image size for attachment to e-mail messages or incorporation into Web pages.

In the PLAY mode, press [MENU].

Select the “PLAY” tab, select “Resize”, and then press [].

Use [] and [] to scroll through images and display the one you want to resize.

Use [] and [] to select the setting you want, and then press [SET].

To do this: Resize to 1280 x 960 pixels (SXGA) Resize to 640 x 480 pixels (VGA) Cancel the resizing operation

IMPORTANT!

• Resizing an image creates a new file that contains the image in the size you select. The file with the original image also remains in memory.

• Images smaller than 640 x 480 pixels cannot be resized.

• An image recorded using the 1600 x 1072 (3:2) pixel size cannot be resized.

• Note that you can resize snapshots recorded with this camera only.

• If the message “This function is not supported for this file.” appears, it means that the current image cannot be resized.

• The resize operation cannot be performed if there is not enough memory to store the resized image.

Select this: 1280 x 960 640 x 480 Cancel

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Cropping an Image

Use the following procedure when you want to crop a portion of an enlarged image and use the remaining part of the image as an e-mail attachment, Web page image, etc.

In the PLAY mode, use [] and [] to scroll through images and display the one you want to crop.

Press [MENU].

Select the “PLAY” tab, select “Trimming”, and then press [].

• This causes a cropping boundary to appear.

Use [] and [] to make the cropping boundary smaller or larger.

• The size of the cropping boundary depends on the size of the image on the display.

When the cropping boundary is the size you want, press [DISP] to lock it.

• After pressing [DISP] to lock the size of the cropping boundary, you can press [DISP] again to unlock it. After that, you can repeat steps 4 and 5 to change the cropping boundary size.

Use [], [], [], and [] to move the cropping boundary up, down, left, or right until the area of the image you want to extract is within the boundary.

Press [SET] to extract the part of the image enclosed in the cropping boundary.

• If you want to cancel the procedure at any point, press [MENU].

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IMPORTANT!

• Cropping an image creates a new file that contains the cropped image. The file with the original image also remains in memory.

• An image recorded using the 1600 x 1072 (3:2) pixel size cannot be cropped.

• Movie and voice recording file images (EX-M20 only) cannot be cropped.

• An image recorded using another camera model cannot be cropped.

• If the message “This function is not supported for this file.” appears, it means that the current image cannot be cropped.

• The cropping operation cannot be performed if there is not enough memory to store the cropped image.

Playing a Movie

Use the following procedure to play back a movie that was recorded in the movie mode.

In the PLAY mode,

Movie icon

press [] and [] to scroll through images until the movie you want to play is displayed.

Press [SET].

• This start playback of the movie.

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