Official Olympus PDF, which Olympus no longer publishes: the link opens the copy kept by Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine.
Getting started
Batteries It runs on two AA batteries: alkaline, Oxyride or rechargeable NiMH. Push the battery/card cover lock, slide the cover and open it, then fit the two batteries following the + and − signs in the diagram. Close the cover and slide it back into place.
Card With the camera off, open the same cover and push an xD-Picture Card in straight until it clicks. To take it out, push it all the way in and release gently. With no card, it records to its internal memory.
Switching on for the first time Turn the mode dial to AUTO and press POWER: the screen lights up and the lens extends. If the date isn’t set, its screen appears: set the year, month, day, hour and minutes with the arrows, choose the date order and confirm with OK.
Language Press MENU, choose SETUP, then the language line, and select ENGLISH before confirming with OK. The languages on offer vary with the country of purchase, and the OLYMPUS Master software can add more.
Your first photo Put the mark in the centre of the screen on your subject and press halfway: the green lamp lights up when focus and exposure are locked. If it blinks, release and try again. Press all the way to take the picture.
What it can do
A 3× optical zoom, from 38 to 114 mm in 35 mm equivalent, extended up to 12× by the digital zoom. The red part of the zoom bar shows the digital zoom, which makes the image grainier.
The mode dial offers AUTO, digital image stabilisation against blur, portrait, landscape, night portrait, SCENE, video and GUIDE, which helps you set up the camera step by step on screen.
SCENE offers ten situations: sport, indoor, candle, self-portrait, sunset, fireworks, behind glass, cuisine, documents and auction.
Video, without sound, at 320 × 240 or 160 × 120 at 15 frames per second. Press the shutter button all the way to start the movie, and again to stop it.
Close-ups: from 10 cm at wide angle (60 cm at telephoto) in macro mode, and from 5 cm in super macro, with the zoom locked.
The flash
Four modes on the flash button: auto, red-eye reduction, fill-in flash, which fires for every photo and lights a backlit face, and flash off.
Without flash in dim light, switch to digital image stabilisation: the camera raises the sensor sensitivity by itself.
Stay at least 1 m from your subject’s face when the flash fires.
Good to know
CR-V3 lithium batteries and zinc-carbon batteries don’t work in this camera. The manual recommends NiMH: alkalines sometimes don’t last as long, especially in the cold.
The internal memory holds about 6 photos in HQ or 32 seconds of HQ video. With a card inserted, everything goes to the card and the photos in the internal memory can no longer be played back: remove the card, or copy them to the card with BACKUP.
A card from another brand or one that has been through a computer shows a card error: format it in the camera. Formatting erases everything, protected photos included. Panorama requires an Olympus xD card.
After 3 minutes without use, the camera goes to sleep: the shutter button or the zoom button wakes it. 15 minutes later, the lens retracts and it switches off.
Don’t open the cover or remove the batteries while the access lamp is blinking: you could lose the photo and make the card or the internal memory unusable.
X-760 specifications
Sensor
1/2.5-inch CCD, 6 MP effective, images up to 2816 × 2112
Lens
3× zoom, 6.3-18.9 mm (38-114 mm in 35 mm equivalent), f/3.1-5.9, up to 12× with the digital zoom
Focusing
autofocus from 0.5 m (wide angle) or 0.9 m (telephoto) to infinity, macro from 0.1 m at wide angle (0.6 m at telephoto), super macro from 5 cm
Shutter
2 s to 1/2000 s
Metering
centre-weighted
Screen
2.5-inch colour TFT, 153,600 dots
Video
320 × 240 or 160 × 120 at 15 frames per second, without sound (QuickTime Motion JPEG)
Power
2 AA batteries (Oxyride, alkaline or NiMH), or Olympus AC adapter
Card
xD-Picture Card from 16 MB to 1 GB, or internal memory
Dimensions and weight
90 × 62.5 × 22.5 mm excluding protrusions, 124 g without batteries or card
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