Canon POWERSHOT A640 User manual

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Canon

HlNerShot

640

HlNerShot

630

Menus and Settings

:Playback/Erasing

DIGITAL

Photo

PowerShot A640

Printing

Downloading Images

to aComputer

Camera

User

Guide

Please Read This First

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

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The following guides are available. Refer to them as necessary

according to the flowchart below.

For

information

included

items

and

items

sold

separately

The

Components

Guide

Preparations

•Installing the batteries and memory card

•Opening the LCD monitor

•Setting the date, time and language

Shooting

Playback/Erasing

Menus

and

Settings

•

Installing

the

software

•

Downloading

images

computer

•

Using

the

software

DSystem Map

Basic

Camera User

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Guide

(This Guide)

. • Read this first.

Advanced

Camera

User

Guide

Direct

User

Guide

Basic

Camera

User

Guide

(This Guide)

Software

Starter

Guide

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•PDF manuals available

on the Canon website.

http://web.canon.jp/

Imaging/informatione.html

this guide, the Basic Camera User Guide is called the Basic Guide,

and the Advanced Camera User Guide is called the Advanced Guide.

lin

this

guide,

explanations

are

given

using

illustrations

for

the

PowerShot

A640.1

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Front

View

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Wrist Strap Mount

@Speaker

@AF-assist Beam (Advanced Guide

21)

Red-Eye Reduction Lamp

(p.

16)

®Self-Timer Lamp

(p.

18)

@Viewfinder Window (Advanced Guide

16)

oFlash

(p.

15)

®Ring

(Advanced Guide

121)

®Ring Release Button (Advanced Guide

121)

@Lens

®Microphone (Advanced Guide

pp.

39,

87)

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•

Back

View

LCD Monitor

(p.

Advanced Guide

12)

.@Viewfinder (Advanced Guide

16)

@A/V

OUT (Audio/Video output) Terminal (Advanced Guide

97)

@DIGITAL Terminal

(p.

28)

@Terminal Cover

®DC

Terminal (Power input) (Advanced Guide

119)

(j) Memory Card Slot /Battery Cover

(p.

®Memory Card Slot /Battery Cover Lock

(p.

®Tripod Socket

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Controls

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Indicators (p. 4)

@Power

Lamp

@Power Button (p. 9)

@Zoom

Lever (p. 14, Advanced Guide

78)

Shooting:1ll!I (Wide

Angle)/[tJ

(Telephoto)

Playback:~

(Index)/Q

(Magnify)

®Shutter Button (p. 10)

®Shooting Mode Dial (pp.

11)

(j)Mode Switch (pp.

20)

ddJ¢Vf

(Print/Share) Button (p. 23)

®MENU Button (p. 22, Advanced Guide

19)

@FUNC.lSET (Function/Set) Button (p. 21, Advanced Guide

18)

®DISP.

(Display) Button (Advanced Guide

12)

@lit (Exposure)/

(Single Image Erase) Button (p. 20, Advanced

Guide

57)

(Flash)/!ti

(Jump)/.

Button (p. 15, Advanced Guide

80)

Button

~(Macro)/MF

(Manual

Focus)/.

Button

(p.

17,

Advanced Guide

51)

Button

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Indicators

The camera indicators will light or blink under the following conditions.

•Upper Indicator

Green:

Blinking Green:

Orange:

Blinking Orange:

•Lower Indicator

Yellow:

Blinking Yellow:

Ready to shoot

Image recording/reading/erasing/transferring

(when connected to acomputer)

Ready to shoot (flash on)

Ready to shoot (camera shake warning),

charging flash

Macro mode/Manual focus mode/AF lock mode

Focusing difficulty (camera beeps once)

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1.Installing the batteries.

1·.

Slide the

memory

card

slot/battery

cover

lock

in the

direction

th,e

arrow

(CD)

and open

the

cover

(@).

Insert

the

supplied

AA-size alkaline batteries,

separately

sold

AA-size NiMH batteries.

Negative end (-)ji

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Positive end

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(+)

~See

the

Advanced

Guide:

Battery

Handling

(p.

112).

2. Inserting the

memory

card.

Insert the

memory

card

until

clicks

into

place.

Hold

down

the

memory

card

slot/battery

cover

(CD),

then

slide

the

direction

the

arrow

until

clicks

into

place

(@).

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~See

the

Advanced

Guide:

Handling

the

Memory

Card

(p.

114).

~See

the

Advanced

Guide:

Formatting

Memory

Cards

(p.

26)

•

Remove

the

Memory

Card

Push the memory card with your finger until the memory card clicks

and then release it.

You can use SD* memory cards, SDHC memory cards and

MultiMediaCards with this camera. These cards are collectively called

memory cards in this guide.

stands for Secure Digital, acopyright protection system.

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First

Time

Settings

•

Opening

the

LCD

Monitor

The LCD monitor can

used to check

image during shooting, to

play back recorded images or to adjust menu settings. It can be

opened to the following range of positions.

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

the LCD monitor

automatically

flipped and reversed so that it

appears correctly from

front

the lens.

This reverse display function can be turned off.

~See

the

Advanced

Guide:

Rec.

(p.

20).

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,

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nonreversed orientation.

~See

the

Advanced

Guide:

Using

the

LCD

Monitor

(p.

12).

When not using the camera, close the LCD monitor with

the monitor facing

to protect

it.

The LCD monitor will

automatically turn off when it clicks shut against the

camera body. I

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•

Setting

the

Date/Time

Press the power button

(CD).

2. Use the

or"

button to select an item and the

... button to change its value ((!)).

3.Confirm that the correct time is displayed and press

the FUNC./SET button (@).

The date and time can also be set

the Set up menu (p. 22).

• 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

the camera. When you

purchase the camera, place the main batteries

it for

approximately four hours or use AC Adapter Kit ACK600

(sold separately) to charge the lithium battery. It will

charge even ifthe camera

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).

Hold

down

the

FUNC.lSET

button

and

press

the

button.

3. Use the

... button to select alanguage and

press the FUNC./SET button.

The display language can also be set

the Set up menu (p. 22).

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