Casio Exilim EX-Z65 User manual

Digital Camera

User’s Guide

Thank you for purchasing this CASIO product.

• Before using it, be sure to read the precautions

contained in this User’s Guide.

• Keep the User’s Guide in a safe place for future

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EX-Z65

K826PCM1DMX

2UNPACKING

UNPACKING

As you unpack your camera, check to make sure that all items shown below are included. If anything is missing, contact your original

retailer.

Digital Camera Rechargeable Lithium Ion Battery

(NP-20) Battery Charger (BC-11L)

AC Power Cord *Strap

USB Cable AV Cable CD-ROM Basic Reference

*The shape of the AC power cord

plug varies according to country or

geographic area.

Attach strap here.

To attach the strap to the camera.

3CONTENTS

CONTENTS

UNPACKING 2

QUICK START BASICS 9

First, charge the battery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

Configuring Display Language, Date,

and Time Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

Using a Memory Card . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

Shooting a Snapshot . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

Viewing Snapshots . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

Shooting a Movie . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18

Viewing a Movie . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

Deleting a File . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20

INTRODUCTION 21

Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21

Read this first! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22

Precautions during Use . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25

GETTING READY 34

Charging the Battery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34

■To charge the battery 34

■To load the battery 36

■Replacing the Battery 39

■Battery Precautions 39

Using the Camera in another Country . . . . . . . . . . 40

Turning Power On and Off . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41

Using a Memory Card . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44

■Supported Memory Cards 44

■Loading a Memory Card into the Camera 46

■Replacing the Memory Card 47

■Formatting a Memory Card 48

Using On-screen Menus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49

Configuring Monitor Screen Settings . . . . . . . . . . 51

■Selecting a Screen Layout 51

■Turning Display Information On and Off 55

If you lose your way... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56

4CONTENTS

SHOOTING A SNAPSHOT 57

Holding the Camera Correctly . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57

Shooting a Snapshot . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58

■Specifying Image Size 61

■Specifying Image Quality 63

■Using the easy Mode 64

■Snapshot Shooting Precautions 66

■Auto Focus Restrictions 67

Shooting with Zoom . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67

Using Flash . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71

Using the Self-Timer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75

Using Continuous Shutter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77

Adding Audio to a Snapshot . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79

SHOOTING A MOVIE 81

Movie Image Quality . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81

Shooting a Movie . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82

■Movie Recording Precautions 83

USING BEST SHOT 84

Reducing the Effects of Hand and Subject

Movement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89

Taking Bright Images without Flash . . . . . . . . . . . 91

Shooting Images of Business Cards

and Documents (Business Shot) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92

Restoring an Old Photograph. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94

5CONTENTS

ADVANCED SETTINGS 97

Changing the Focus Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97

■Using Auto Focus 98

■Using Macro Focus 99

■Using Fixed Focus (Pan Focus) 104

■Using Infinity Focus 104

■Using Manual Focus 104

Correcting Image Brightness (EV Shift) . . . . . . . 106

Controlling White Balance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108

Specifying ISO Sensitivity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110

Specifying the Metering Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112

Using the Camera’s Filter Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . 113

Controlling Image Sharpness . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114

Controlling Color Saturation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114

Adjusting Image Contrast . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115

Date Stamping Snapshots . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115

Using the On-screen Histogram to

Check Exposure. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116

Other Useful Recording Functions . . . . . . . . . . . 118

■Using Key Customize to Assign Functions

[W] and [X]119

■Displaying an On-screen Grid 120

■Displaying the Image You Just Recorded

(Image Review) 120

■Using Icon Help 121

■Using Mode Memory to Configure Power

On Default Settings 122

■Resetting the Camera to Its

Initial Factory Defaults 124

VIEWING SNAPSHOTS

AND MOVIES 125

Viewing a Snapshot . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125

■Listening to the Audio of an Audio Snapshot 126

Viewing a Movie . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127

Playing a Slideshow on the Camera . . . . . . . . . . 129

Viewing Camera Images on a TV . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131

Zooming the Displayed Image . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134

Using the 12-image Screen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135

Using the Calendar Screen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136

6CONTENTS

EDITING IMAGES 137

Resizing a Snapshot . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137

Cropping a Snapshot . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138

Keystone Correction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139

Using Color Restoration to Correct the Color

of an Old Photograph . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140

Editing the Date and Time of an Image . . . . . . . . 142

Rotating an Image . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143

Editing a Movie on the Camera . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144

Creating a Snapshot of a Movie Frame

(MOTION PRINT) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147

USING AUDIO 149

Adding Audio to a Snapshot . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149

Recording Audio Only (Voice Recording) . . . . . . 151

MANAGING YOUR FILES 153

Files and Folders . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153

Protecting a File Against Deletion . . . . . . . . . . . . 154

Using the FAVORITE Folder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 156

Copying Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 158

DELETING FILES 160

Deleting a Specific File . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 160

Deleting All Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161

Deleting FAVORITE Folder Snapshots . . . . . . . . 161

7CONTENTS

OTHER SETTINGS 162

Configuring Camera Sound Settings . . . . . . . . . . 162

Turning the Startup Screen On or Off . . . . . . . . . 163

Specifying the File Name Serial Number

Generation Rule . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164

Changing the Camera Date and Time Setting. . . 165

Using World Time . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 168

■Configuring World Time Settings 168

Changing the Display Language . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169

Changing the USB Port Protocol . . . . . . . . . . . . . 170

[ ] (REC) and [ ] (PLAY) Button

Settings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171

Formatting Built-in Memory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 172

PRINTING 173

Types of Printing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173

Using Professional Print Service . . . . . . . . . . . . . 174

Using Your Printer to Print Images . . . . . . . . . . . 174

Using DPOF to Specify Images to

be Printed and the Number of Copies . . . . . . . . . 177

■Date Stamping 180

Supported Protocols . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181

USING THE CAMERA

WITH A COMPUTER 182

What you can do . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 182

Using the Camera with a Windows Computer . . 183

■Viewing and Storing Images on a Computer 186

■Transfer of Images from the Camera

and Management of Images on the Computer 192

■Playing Movies 194

■Transferring Images to the Camera 194

■Viewing User Documentation (PDF) Files 198

■User Registration 198

■Exiting the CD-ROM Menu 198

Using the Camera with a Macintosh . . . . . . . . . . 199

■Viewing and Storing Images on a Macintosh 200

■Transfer of Images from the Camera

and Management of Images on Your Macintosh 203

■Playing Movies 204

■Viewing User Documentation (PDF Files) 204

■Registering as a User 204

Reading Files Directly from a Memory Card . . . . 205

Memory Card Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 206

8CONTENTS

APPENDIX 209

General Guide . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 209

Monitor Screen Contents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 211

Menu Reference . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 214

Indicator Lamps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 218

■Battery Charger Lamp Reference 219

Troubleshooting Guide . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 220

■Finding the Problem and Fixing It 220

■If you have problems installing the USB driver... 224

■Display Messages 225

Specifications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 227

9QUICK START BASICS

QUICK START BASICS

(page 34)

■Using the Battery Charger to Charge

1. Load the battery into the battery charger.

2. Plug the battery charger into a household

power outlet.

First, charge the battery

[CHARGE] lamp lights red during charging.

[CHARGE] lamp goes out when charging is complete.

• It takes about 90 minutes to achieve a full charge.

10 QUICK START BASICS

■Loading the Battery into the Camera

1. Open the battery cover.

2. Load the battery into the camera.

3. Close the battery cover.

While pressing lightly on

the cover, slide it in the

direction indicated by the

arrow to open.

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