This camera is way too complicated. All I really wanted was a simple point and shoot digital camera but it appears that there really is no such thing. I bought this one because it was on sale and I was told it was not too complicated. I'm having problems with the settings changing unexpectedly in regards to image size and flash function. It is a Casio exilim EX-Z33. Supposedly it has something called Easy Mode but I can't find it in the basic instructions, and the manual scares the daylights out of me.
Could someone explain to me in the simplest terms possible how to set it and lock it into easy mode? Please give detailed but simple step-by-step explanation. I want image size to always be medium (2304 X 1798 dpi) and for the flash to work automatically in any low light condition.
I've just had a scan through the instructions and yes you've got yourself quite a beast.
Short of coming along and sitting with you for about half an hour, get someone to do this if you can. I suggest, keep on with the instructions but keep it simple
Page 9 in the instructions is the first of the Getting started basics chapter. Try and work with this until you get more familiar with the camera.
Don't worry too much about the rest until you feel a bit more confident.
Should you go through setting up your camera.
1) In each of the menus, if there's an an AUTO option, thats the one to choose.
2) Once your resolution has been set, it shouldn't change unless you change to a proprietry scene setting
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Yes the do have an auto mode
I have a slitly older model but it should be close.
Turn it on
hit the menu button
trigger it over to set up
Then down to reset
Then from there, start in REC and work your way down. Set the size and the flash assist to on.
the reset is a cure all, puts everything back to factory.
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Sounds like you're psyching yourself out. Calm down and take the instruction manual a page at a time and you will be amazed at what you are capable of. In just a few days, you'll be taking professional looking pictures and in a few months, you might even be thinking about what a DSLR could do!
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Thanks. Yours is the best answer so far. I need someone who owns one of these cameras to sit down with me and show me what to do. There is nothing in the manual that says anything about Easy mode.
I tried:
Turn it on
hit the menu button
trigger it over to set up
Then down to reset
Then from there, start in REC and work your way down.
but I only got as far as
turn it on
hit the mrnu button
trigger (touch the chrome ring left, right, up down?) over to set up.
(it already is at set-up)
then down to reset
(I did that)
Then from there, start in REC and work your way down
(ok, I went to REC and now there is no more menu to go up or down with.)
Newsflash! Now I don't remember exactly what I just did, but I figured out how to go down the options on the right and got down to Auto mode.
Thanks everyone. I'm a digital artist and I sometimes use photos as source material, but mostly I do paintings using the mouse. I don't need the source photos to be technically perfect because I can re-work them using my graphics programs. All that matters to me is that the photo is a good composition. Everything else I can change on the computer. Often times I only use photos as a "palate" to extract colors from.
Thank you for this. It helped, but I think it's just going to take time to figure this thing out. I wish the manufacturers would market devices that were less complex. I think they'd find that there's a large untapped demographic out there made up of people who like things more user-friendly and less time-consuming and labor intensive.
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