Table Of Contents - Panasonic Lumix DMC-FX500 Operating Instructions Manual

Contents
Before Use
Information for Your Safety ............................2
Quick Guide ...................................................8
Standard Accessories ....................................9
Names of the Components ..........................10
How to Use the Touch Panel .......................12
• What can be done
by touch operation ................................13
Preparation
Charging the Battery ....................................14
About the Battery
(charging/number of
recordable pictures) .....................................15
Inserting and Removing the Card
(optional)/the Battery....................................16
About the Built-in Memory/the Card.............17
Setting Date/Time (Clock Set) .....................18
• Changing the clock setting
(In program AE mode)...........................19
Setting the Menu..........................................20
• Setting menu items................................21
• Using the quick menu ............................22
About the Setup Menu .................................23
Selecting the [REC] Mode............................28
Taking pictures using
t
he automatic function
(ñ: Intelligent Auto Mode) ...........................29
• Scene detection.....................................30
• The Backlight Compensation.................30
• About the flash.......................................31
• Settings in Intelligent auto mode ...........31
Taking pictures with
your favorite settings
(³: Program AE mode) ...............................32
• Focusing ................................................33
• When the subject is not in focus
(such as when it is not in
the center of the composition of
the picture you want to take) .................33
• Preventing jitter (camera shake)............33
Taking Pictures with the Zoom.....................34
• Using the Optical Zoom/
Using the Extended Optical Zoom (EZ)/
Using the Digital Zoom..........................34
Playing back Pictures
([NORMAL PLAY]) .......................................36
• Using the Touch Zoom ..........................36
• Switching the [PLAYBACK] mode .........37
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Basic
Deleting Pictures..........................................38
• To delete a single picture ......................38
•
To delete multiple pictures
(up to 50) or all the pictures
Advanced (Recording pictures)
About the L
CD Monitor ...............................40
Taking Pictures using
the Built-in Flash ..........................................42
• Switching to
the appropriate flash setting..................42
Taking Close-up Pictures.............................45
Taking Pictures with the Self-timer ..............46
Taking Pictures with Focus and
Exposure Set on Subject
(Touch AF/AE) .............................................47
Taking Pictures with Set Aperture
(±: Aperture-priority AE) .............................48
Taking Pictures with Set Shutter Speed
(´: Shutter-priority AE) ...............................49
Taking Pictures with
Exposure Set Manually
(²: Manual exposure) .................................50
Aperture Value and Shutter Speed ..............51
Compensating the Exposure........................52
Taking Pictures using Auto Bracket .............53
Taking pictures that match
the scene being recorded
(¿: Scene mode).........................................54
• * [PORTRAIT].....................................54
• + [SOFT SKIN]....................................55
• 0 [SELF PORTRAIT]...........................55
• , [SCENERY] .....................................55
• - [SPORTS] ........................................55
• . [NIGHT PORTRAIT] ........................56
• / [NIGHT SCENERY] .........................56
• 1 [FOOD] ...........................................56
• 2 [PARTY]...........................................56
• 3 [CANDLE LIGHT].............................57
• : [BABY1]/; [BABY2].......................57
• í [PET]................................................58
• ï [SUNSET] ........................................58
• 9 [HIGH SENS.] ..................................58
• ô [HI-SPEED BURST].........................59
• 5 [STARRY SKY] ................................59
• 4 [FIREWORKS] .................................60
• 6 [BEACH] ..........................................60
• 8 [SNOW]............................................60
• 7 [AERIAL PHOTO] ............................60
Motion Picture Mode ....................................61
Useful Functions at Travel Destinations ......63
• Recording which Day of
the Vacation You Take the Picture........63
• Recording Dates/
Times at Overseas
Travel Destinations (World Time)..........64
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