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Camera Guides
Olympus C-2000 Zoom Instructions for OneShot360™
Recommended Camera Settings for OneShot360
- Put Your Olympus C-2000 Zoom in A mode before turning the camera on.
Press the menu button located directly above the LCD screen, and use the jog dial to set the image quality to SHQ for best quality. When the selection is shown in green, press the OK button to finalize the selection.
- Use the Zoom to exactly fill the digital camera LCD viewer screen with the circular image. This is done by pushing or pulling the lever on the outside of the shutter release button. If you zoom in too much, you will lose part of the field of view. If you zoom in too little, you will not get maximum resolution. Note also that the OneShot image may not be exactly centered in the LCD screen –
this is normal.
- Press the menu button, then select the first option which selects the metering type. Select the full screen meter method, verses the spot metering, then press OK to confirm the selection. This will give better results with the oneshot360.
- Set the white balance. Automatic setting is usually adequate. To set the white balance, press the menu button, and press the down arrow on the jog dial until you have selected WB. Use the right arrow to see the white balance options, and select the AUTO setting. Press the OK button to finalize your selection
- Disable the flash by pressing menu button and navigating to the flash menu. Select the Flash-off icon and press OK to confirm selection.
To focus your OneShot image, it is recommended to manually set the distance.
- To do this, press the Menu button, and then press the jog dial to select the focus menu. Select the infinity symbol. Press the OK button to confirm the selection.
- Set the aperture to f/7 by using the jog dial’s up/down arrows. Make sure the Exposure value in the right corner of the LCD screen is set to 0.0. You can adjust this by using the right/left arrows. If the light level is low, you may need a tripod when the shutter speed is slower than 1/125sec. To check the shutter speed, you can press lightly on the shutter release, to depress it half way.
The shutter speed will be displayed in a white number in the LCD screen.
Recommended Camera Settings for OneShot360Plus
When taking 360x360 images, follow all of the above instructions, and the additional instructions below. Because the Oneshot360Plus uses 4 images, it is best to make sure that all 4 images have the same exposure. This will ensure the end result will have a continuous tone and density throughout the image. The best way to do this with the Olympus C-2000 is to:
- Try to make the scene as evenly balanced with the same type of light as possible. For example, close window shades to avoid harsh uneven lighting, and turn on interior lights to try to balance the brightness.
- Set the white balance to a fixed setting. This will keep the camera from shifting the white balance between shots if the scene has more than one type of lighting. To do this, press the menu button on the back of the camera, and use the down arrow to select WB, then the right arrow to see the choices for pre-set white balance settings. Choose the correct pre-set option according to the scene you
are shooting. Your choices are Outdoor/sunny, overcast, tungsten, and fluorescent. Press the OK button to confirm the setting.
- Set the self-timer.
- Disable the flash.
- Now you are ready to capture a 360x360 set of images.
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