Table Of Contents - Panasonic Lumix DMC-LX2 Operating Instructions Manual

Contents
Before Use
Information for Your Safety . . . . . . . . . . .2
About The Mode dial . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .6
Preparation
Standard Accessories . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .9
Names of the Components . . . . . . . . . . .10
Quick Guide . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .12
Charging the Battery with the Charger . .13
About the Battery (charging/number of
recordable pictures) . . . . . . . . . . . . . .14
Inserting/Removing the Battery . . . . . . .15
Inserting/Removing the Card (Optional) . .16
About the Built-in Memory/the Card . . . .17
Attaching the Lens Cap/Strap . . . . . . . .19
Setting Date/Time (Clock Set) . . . . . . . .20
• Changing the clock setting . . . . . . . .20
Setup Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .21
Basic
Taking Pictures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .26
Taking Pictures in Auto Mode . . . . . . . .30
Taking Pictures with the Zoom . . . . . . . .32
• Using the Optical Zoom . . . . . . . . . .32
• Using the Extended Optical Zoom
(EZ) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .33
• Using the Digital Zoom
Further extending the zoom . . . . . . .34
Checking the Recorded Picture
(Review) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .35
Playing Back Pictures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .36
Deleting Pictures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .37
Advanced
About the LCD Monitor . . . . . . . . . . . . . .39
• Changing the information
displayed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .39
• Brightening the LCD Monitor
(Power LCD/High angle mode) . . . .41
Taking Pictures using the
Built-in Flash . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .43
Taking Pictures with the Self-timer . . . . .47
Compensating the Exposure . . . . . . . . .48
Taking Pictures using Auto Bracket . . . 49
Optical Image Stabilizer
[STABILIZER] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
Taking Pictures using Burst Mode . . . . 51
Taking pictures by setting the aperture/
shutter speed manually . . . . . . . . . . . 53
• Aperture-priority AE . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
• Shutter-priority AE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
Taking pictures by setting the exposure
manually . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
• Manual exposure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
Taking Pictures with Manual Focus . . . 56
Taking Close-up pictures . . . . . . . . . . . 59
Setting the aspect ratio . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
AF/AE Lock (AF: Auto focus/AE: Auto
exposure) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
Scene mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
- Portrait mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
- Soft skin mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
- Scenery mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
- Sports mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
- Night portrait mode . . . . . . . . . . . 64
- Night scenery mode . . . . . . . . . . 64
- Self portrait mode . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
- Food mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
- Party mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
- Candle light mode . . . . . . . . . . . 66
- Fireworks mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66
- Starry sky mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
- Beach mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
- Aerial photo mode . . . . . . . . . . . 68
- Snow mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68
- High Sensitivity mode . . . . . . . . . 68
- Baby mode 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
- Baby mode 2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
Recording which day of the vacation you
take the picture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70
Displaying the time at the travel
destination . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
• Location candidates for World Time
settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74
Motion picture mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75
Displaying Multiple Screens
(Multi Playback) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77
Displaying pictures by recording date
(Calendar playback) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78
Using the Playback Zoom . . . . . . . . . . . 79
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