Description Of Controls And Switches; Top Of Camera - Panasonic Lumix DMC-FZ200 User Manual

Description of Controls and Switches

Top of camera

Power switch - turns the camera power on or off.
Mode Dial - by means of this dial you can preselect a shooting mode and
determine the amount of control over the automatic function that you
have, just turn the dial until the shooting mode you require aligns with the
index mark.
EVF Dioptre adjustment - by use of this small ratchet wheel you can
adjust for your own eyesight correction level, adjust this wheel until, as
you look into the EVF, the menu or grid lines appear sharply focused, do
not try to set the focus on the displayed image.
Flash release lever - use this lever to allow the flash head to pop up and
turn on the flash electronics.
Auto Video record button - this button starts video recording in fully
automatic mode. It uses the settings you have set up in the video
recording set up menu (AVCHD or MP4 and recording quality).
Burst Mode button - use this button to select the burst mode rate,
depending upon if you want the autofocus enabled for each shot, or for
the focus to be set on taking the first image only.
Zoom lever - this lever is used to operate the zoom lens, it has two
positions. The first position which operates as you slightly rotate the lever
is for the slowest zoom rate and the full rotation of the lever allows the
lens to travel at its fastest zoom rate. Pushing the lever anti-clockwise
drives the zoom lens to the wide angle setting whilst rotating the lever
clockwise drives the zoom lens to the telephoto settings.
Shutter release button - is used to take the exposure. It has two defined
positions. Half way depressed enables the focus and metering systems
to establish both the focus and exposure and the fully depressed position
initiates the final exposure sequence. During a self timer mode the full
depression of the button begins the timer sequence. In burst mode
shooting pressing and holding down the button initiates this sequence.
Fn1 Button - is a user defined button and it can be set up to access a
range of commonly used functions which will speed up access to the
feature which has been assigned in the menu.
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