Taking Pictures With Your Favourite Settings (·: Normal Picture Mode); Focusing - Panasonic Lumix DMC-FX38 Operating Instructions Manual

Basic
[REC] mode:
Taking pictures with your favourite settings
( : Normal picture mode)
·
Many more menu items can be set and you can take pictures with greater freedom than
when you take pictures in the Intelligent auto mode (P25).
1 Slide the [REC]/[PLAYBACK] selector
switch to [!].
A Mode dial
B [REC]/[PLAYBACK] selector switch
2
Set the mode dial to [·].
•
To change the setting while taking pictures, refer to
"
Using the [REC] Mode Menu
3
Aim the AF area at the point you want to
focus on.
4
Press the shutter button halfway to focus.
•
The focus indication (green) lights when the subject is
focused.
•
The focus range is 50 cm
•
If pictures are to be taken at an even closer range,
refer to
5 Press the halfway pressed shutter button
fully to take a picture.
•
The access indication lights (P14) red when pictures
are being recorded on the built-in memory (or the
card).
∫ To adjust the exposure and take pictures at times when the image appears too
dark (P42)
∫ To adjust the colours and take pictures at times when the image appears too red
(P60)
Aim the AF area at the subject, and then press the shutter button halfway.
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(Wide)/1 m (Tele)
"
Taking Close-up Pictures
Focus indication
AF area
Sound
"
(P58).
to ¶.
"
(P40).

Focusing

When the subject is
Focus
focused
On
White>Green
Beeps 2 times
When the subject
is not focused
Blinks
White>Red
Beeps 4 times