Convenient Ways To Turn The Power On; Taking Pictures With Automatic Settings; [Intelligent Auto] Mode - Panasonic DMCFP1 - DIGITAL STILL CAMERA Operating Instructions Manual

Sequence of Recording
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Holding the camera
• If jitter becomes noticeable, use both hands, keep your
AF assist lamp
arms close to your body, and stand with your feet at
Flash
shoulder width.
• Do not touch the lens.
• Do not block the microphone when recording motion
picture. (→7)
• Do not block the flash or the AF assist lamp. Do not look
at it from close range.
• Try to hold the camera steady when you press the
shutter button.

Convenient ways to turn the power on

Besides opening the lens cover, you can also turn the power on as follows.
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To turn the power on in Playback Mode
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With the lens cover opened and the power off
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Hold
Pictures on the card or built-in memory are
displayed.
Hold
The camera will turn on in Recording Mode.
• When the Power button is held with the lens cover
closed, a message [PLEASE OPEN THE LENS
COVER] is displayed.

Taking pictures with automatic settings

[INTELLIGENT AUTO] Mode

Recording Mode:
Optimum settings are made automatically from information such as 'face,' 'movement,'
'brightness,' and 'distance' just by pointing the camera at the subject, meaning that clear
pictures can be taken without the need to make settings manually.
Shutter button
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Automatic scene detection
Camera identifies scene when pointed at subject, and makes optimum settings
automatically.
[i PORTRAIT]: People are detected
[i SCENERY]: Scenery is detected
[i MACRO]: A close-up shot is detected
Reads subject movement to avoid blurring when scene does not correspond to any of the
above.
If the camera automatically identifies the scene and determines that people appear
as subjects in the picture ( or ), Face Detection is activated, and the focus and
exposure are adjusted for the recognized faces.
Open the lens cover
The power is turned on.
Select [INTELLIGENT AUTO] Mode
• Press again to return to the
previous Recording Mode.
Recording Mode icon (see below)
Take pictures
Press fully (press
Press halfway
the button all the
(press lightly to
way to record)
focus)
Focus display
(when focus aligned:
flashing → illuminated)
The type of scene detected is indicated by a
blue icon for two seconds
[i NIGHT PORTRAIT]: People and night
(Only when
scenery are detected
is selected)
[i NIGHT SCENERY]: Night scenery is
detected
[i SUNSET]: A sunset is detected
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