The Setup section is common to all
the modes of the S500. Just like the other menus, it is presented
as a combination of icons and text, making it legible and easily
understood:
Mute: On or Off, turns off all camera sounds.
Volume: to adjust the sound volume over 5 steps
for:
Start-up volume,
Operation volume,
Self-timer volume,
Shutter volume,
Playback volume.
LCD Brightness: to adjust the brightness of the
LCD monitor over ± 7 increments.
Date/Time: to set the internal clock/calendar of
the S500.
Format: formats the memory card, and displays the
card's capacity.
File Number Reset: decides whether file numbering
restarts at 1 when a new or formatted card is used, or continues
being incremented.
Auto Rotate: On or Off. When On the camera uses
a sensor to keep track of its orientation while a photo is
taken, and accordingly rotates the image upon playback.
Language: sets the language for the interface, English,
French, German, Danish, Dutch, Finish, Italian, Norwegian,
Swedish, Spanish, Chinese or Japanese.
Video System: NTSC or PAL.
A compact, well-designed and very complete printed manual accompanies
the PowerShot S500. All aspects of the camera and its operations
are covered and explanations are clear.
Software
Two CDs are included with the PowerShot
S500. The first is Canon's Digital Camera Solution Disk (ver.17.1)
and the secondis ArcSoft's Camera Suite 1.3.
The Canon Digital Camera Solution disk provides software for both Microsoft
Windows and Macintosh computers:
Windows
Macintosh
ZoomBrowser EX 4.6
PhotoRecord 2.0
PhotoStitch 3.1
ImageBrowser 3.6
PhotoStitch 3.1
ZoomBrowser makes it possible
to organize, review, modify, print and prepare photos so they
can be sent as e-mail attachments.
Image editing is limited to adjustments to saturation, brightness, contrast
or cropping. Altered images can be saved by overwriting the original which
erases all the Exif data (the shooting data), or as new photos.
ZoomBrowser is particularly well
adapted to bubble jet printing and is capable of printing more
than one image or contact sheet in addition to printing one image
at a time.
A commentary, or the date and
time, or the file's name, or even a background can be printed,
and photos can be cropped for printing.
ZoomBrowser also serves to launch Remote Capture, an application
that allows shooting the camera from a computer while it is connected via
USB. With Remote Capture, all the camera parameters that can be controlled
physically — including the zoom — can be controlled remotely.
ArcSoft's Camera Suite 1.2 consists
of two programs: PhotoImpression and VideoImpression,
both offered for Windows and Macintosh. PhotoImpression retouching,
improving or altering images with the addition of special effects.
In addition it also provides dozens of page layouts to create
postcards and calendars. While VideoImpression is a simple program
to edit video clips recorded with the S500.
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