Initial Settings
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Set the language, time, and date after purchasing the camera before you start taking pictures.
Power switch
Four-way controller
4 button
3 button
The Language/ screen appears when the camera is turned on for
the first time. Perform the operations in “Setting the Display Language”
below to set the language, and in “Setting the Date and Time” (p.34) to
set the current date and time.
Go to “Setting the Date and Time” (p.34) when the Date Adjust screen
appears.
Language, Date, and Time can be changed. Refer to the pages below for instructions.
• To change the language, follow the steps in “Changing the Display
Language” (1p.132).
• To change the date and time, follow the steps in “Changing the Date and Time” (1p.130).
Setting the Display Language
1
Use the four-way controller
(2345) to choose the display language.
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MENU Cancel OK OK
2
Press the 4 button.
The Date Adjust screen appears.
Next, set the date style and the current date and time using the steps
in “Setting the Date and Time” (p.34-35).
If you accidentally select another language and go to the next procedure, perform the following operation to set the language back.
1
Press the 4 button.
2
Press the 3 button.
3
Press the four-way controller (5).
4
Use the four-way controller (23) to select
[Language/ ].
5
Press the four-way controller (5).
The Language/ screen appears.
6
Use the four-way controller (2345) to select the language.
7
Press the 4 button.
The [u Setting] menu appears in the selected language.
The language is now switched to your desired language.
Date and time are set to correspond to the language mistakenly set previously.
Follow the steps in “Changing the Date and Time” (p.130) to set the current
date and time.
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Setting the Date and Time
Set the current date and time and the display style.
1
Press the four-way controller (5).
The frame moves to [mm/dd/yy].
2
Use the four-way controller (23) to choose the date and time display style.
Date Adjust
Date Style
Date
Time
MENU Cancel
3
Press the four-way controller (5).
The frame moves to [24h].
4
Use the four-way controller (23) to select [24h] (24-hour display) or
[12h] (12-hour display).
5
Press the four-way controller (5).
The frame returns to [Date Style].
6
Press the four-way controller (3).
The frame moves to [Date].
Date Adjust
Date Style
Date
Time
MENU Cancel
Date Adjust
Date Style
Date
Time
MENU Cancel mm dd yy 24h
01/01/2007
0:00
OK OK mm dd yy 24h
01/01/2007
0:00
OK OK mm dd yy 24h
01/01/2007
0:00
OK OK
7
Press the four-way controller (5).
Date Adjust
The frame moves to the month.
8
Use the four-way controller (23) to change the month.
Date Style
Date
Change the day and year in the same manner.
Next, change the time.
Time
MENU Cancel
If you selected [12h] in Step 4, the setting switches between am and pm corresponding to the time.
mm dd yy 24h
01/01/2007
0:00
OK OK
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9
Press the 4 button.
The camera returns to capture status.
Language, Date and Time can be changed. Refer to the pages below for instructions.
• To change the language, follow the steps in “Changing the Display
Language” (1p.132).
• To change the date and time, follow the steps in “Changing the Date and Time” (1p.130).
When the 3 button is pressed in the Language/ screen, the selected language is canceled and the Date Adjustment screen is displayed in the default language (English). To set to another language, follow the steps on p. 35.
When the 3 button is pressed in the Date Adjustment screen, the camera enters Shooting mode without setting the date and time.
Restart the camera to set the date or time. The Date Adjust screen reappears. Alternatively, you can display the Date Adjustment screen from the [u Setting] menu. ( 1
p.132
)
If you press the 4 button in Step 9, the camera clock is reset to 00 seconds. To set the exact time, press the 4 button when the time signal (on the TV, radio, etc.) reaches 00 seconds.
The video output format (NTSC/PAL) is automatically set according to the language selected in [Language/ ] on the Initial Setting screen (refer to the
table below). You can change the setting. (p.135)
Language
(French)
(German)
(Spanish)
(Portuguese)
(Italian)
(Swedish)
Video
Out
NTSC
PAL
PAL
PAL
PAL
PAL
PAL
Language
Video
Out
PAL (Dutch)
(Russian)
(Korean)
PAL
NTSC
(traditional Chinese) PAL
(simplified Chinese) PAL
(Japanese) NTSC
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