User manual PANASONIC LUMIX DMC-FX40

[. . . ] Operating Instructions for advanced features Digital Camera Model No. DMC-FX40 Before use, please read these instructions completely. VQT1X81 Contents Before Use Quick Guide . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Standard Accessories . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Names of the Components . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Playing back Pictures ([NORMAL PLAY]) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42 Displaying Multiple Screens (Multi Playback) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43 Using the Playback Zoom . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44 Switching the [PLAYBACK] mode . . . . . 44 Deleting Pictures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45 To delete a single picture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45 To delete multiple pictures (up to 50) or all the pictures. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45 Preparation Advanced (Recording pictures) Charging the Battery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 About the Battery (charging/ number of recordable pictures). . . . . . . . . 12 Inserting and Removing the Card (optional)/the Battery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 About the Built-in Memory/the Card . . . . . . . . 16 Setting Date/Time (Clock Set). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 Changing the clock setting. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 Setting the Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 Setting menu items . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 Using the quick menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 About the Setup Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 Selecting the [REC] Mode. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 About the LCD Monitor. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47 Taking Pictures using the Built-in Flash. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49 Switching to the appropriate flash setting. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49 Taking Close-up Pictures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54 Taking Pictures with the Self-timer. . . . . . . . . . 56 Compensating the Exposure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57 Taking Pictures using Auto Bracket . . . . . . . . 58 Taking pictures that match the scene being recorded (Scene mode). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59 [PORTRAIT] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60 [SOFT SKIN] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60 [TRANSFORM] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60 [SELF PORTRAIT] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61 [SCENERY] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61 [PANORAMA ASSIST] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62 [SPORTS] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62 [NIGHT PORTRAIT] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63 [NIGHT SCENERY]. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63 [FOOD] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63 [PARTY] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64 [CANDLE LIGHT] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64 [BABY1]/[BABY2] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65 [PET] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66 [SUNSET]. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66 [HIGH SENS. ] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66 [HI-SPEED BURST] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67 [FLASH BURST] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68 [STARRY SKY] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69 [FIREWORKS] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69 [BEACH] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70 [SNOW] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70 [AERIAL PHOTO]. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70 [PIN HOLE] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71 [FILM GRAIN]. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71 [UNDERWATER] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72 Basic Taking pictures using the automatic function (Intelligent Auto Mode) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 Scene detection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 Face Recognition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 AF Tracking Function. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 About the flash . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 Settings in Intelligent auto mode. . . . . . . 36 Taking pictures with your favourite settings (Normal picture mode) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37 Focusing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38 When the subject is not in focus (such as when it is not in the centre of the composition of the picture you want to take) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38 Preventing jitter (camera shake) . . . . . . . 39 Direction detection function. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 Taking Pictures with the Zoom. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40 Using the Optical Zoom/ Using the Extra Optical Zoom (EZ)/ Using the Digital Zoom . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40 -2- Motion Picture Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73 Taking a picture with Face Recognition function. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76 Face Recognition functions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76 Face settings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76 Useful Functions at Travel Destinations . . . 79 Recording which Day of the Vacation You Take the Picture . . . . . . . . . 79 Recording Dates/Times at Overseas Travel Destinations (World Time) . . . . . 82 Using the [REC] Mode Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84 [PICTURE SIZE] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84 [QUALITY]. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85 [ASPECT RATIO]. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86 [INTELLIGENT ISO]. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86 [SENSITIVITY] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87 [WHITE BALANCE]. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88 [I. EXPOSURE] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90 [FACE RECOG. ] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90 [AF MODE]. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90 [QUICK AF] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93 [BURST]. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94 [DIGITAL ZOOM] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95 [COLOR MODE] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95 [STABILIZER] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96 [MIN. SHTR SPEED] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96 [AUDIO REC. ] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97 [AF ASSIST LAMP]. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97 [CLOCK SET]. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97 Taking and viewing clipboard pictures (Clipboard mode) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98 Taking clipboard pictures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98 Viewing clipboard pictures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100 [RESIZE] Reducing the picture size (number of pixels) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114 [TRIMMING] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115 [LEVELING]. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116 [ROTATE DISP. ] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117 [FAVORITE] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118 [PRINT SET] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119 [PROTECT] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121 [AUDIO DUB. ] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122 [FACE RECOG. ] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122 [COPY] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123 Connecting to other equipment Connecting to a PC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124 Printing the Pictures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127 Selecting a single picture and printing it . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128 Selecting multiple pictures and printing them . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129 Print Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130 Playing Back Pictures on a TV Screen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133 Playing back pictures using the AV cable (supplied). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133 Playing back pictures on a TV with an SD Memory Card slot . . . . . . . . . 134 Playing back on the TV with component socket . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135 Others Screen Display . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136 Cautions for Use. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139 Message Display . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144 Troubleshooting. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147 Number of Recordable Pictures and Available Recording Time . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 156 Advanced (Playback) Playing Back Pictures in Sequence (Slide Show). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103 Selecting Pictures and Playing them Back ([CATEGORY PLAY]/ [FAVORITE PLAY]). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106 [CATEGORY PLAY]. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106 [FAVORITE PLAY]. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107 Playing Back Motion Pictures/ Pictures with Audio. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108 Motion pictures. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108 Pictures with audio. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108 Using the [PLAYBACK] mode menu . . . . . 109 [CALENDAR] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109 [TITLE EDIT] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110 [TEXT STAMP] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112 -3- Before Use Before Use Quick Guide This is an overview of how to record and play back pictures with the camera. For each step, be sure to refer to the pages indicated in brackets. [. . . ] (P153) [INTELLIGENT ISO] For details on [REC] mode menu settings, refer to P21. The camera automatically sets the optimum ISO sensitivity and shutter speed to suit the movement of the subject and brightness of the scene to minimise the jitter of the subject. Applicable modes: [OFF]/[ ISOMAX ]/[ ISOMAX ]/[ ISOMAX ] 400 800 1600 The upper limit of the ISO sensitivity can be set. The higher the value set for the ISO sensitivity, the more the jitter is reduced but the greater the amount of picture noise. Note Depending on the brightness and how fast the subject is moving, jitter may not be avoided. Movements may not be detected when a moving subject is small, when a moving subject is at the edge of the screen or when a subject has moved at the very moment when the shutter button was pressed fully. To avoid picture noise, we recommend decreasing maximum ISO sensitivity level or setting [COLOR MODE] to [NATURAL]. (P95) - 86 - Advanced (Recording pictures) [SENSITIVITY] For details on [REC] mode menu settings, refer to P21. This allows the sensitivity to light (ISO sensitivity) to be set. Setting to a higher figure enables pictures to be taken even in dark places without the resulting pictures coming out dark. Applicable modes: [AUTO]/[80]/[100]/[200]/[400]/[800]/[1600] ISO sensitivity Recording location (recommended) Shutter speed Noise 80 When it is light (outdoors) Slow Less 1600 When it is dark Fast Increased Note When setting to [AUTO], the ISO sensitivity is automatically adjusted to a maximum of [ISO400] according to the brightness. (It can be adjusted to a maximum of [ISO1000] when using the flash. ) The setting is not available when [INTELLIGENT ISO] is being used. ([ ] is displayed. ) To avoid picture noise, we recommend that you either reduce the maximum ISO sensitivity level or set [COLOR MODE] to [NATURAL], and then take pictures. (P95) - 87 - Advanced (Recording pictures) [WHITE BALANCE] For details on [REC] mode menu settings, refer to P21. In sunlight, under incandescent lights or in other such conditions where the colour of white takes on a reddish or bluish tinge, this item adjusts to the colour of white which is closest to what is seen by the eye in accordance with the light source. Applicable modes: n [AWB]: Automatic adjustment [V]: []: []: []: []: When taking pictures outdoors under a clear sky When taking pictures outdoors under a cloudy sky When taking pictures outdoors in the shade When taking pictures under incandescent lights Value set by using [] []: Set manually Note The optimal white balance will differ depending on the type of halogen lighting being recorded The white balance setting is memorised even if the camera is turned off. (However, the white In the scene modes listed below, white balance is fixed to [AWB]. [SCENERY]/[NIGHT PORTRAIT]/[NIGHT SCENERY]/[FOOD]/[PARTY]/[CANDLE LIGHT]/ [SUNSET]/[FLASH BURST]/[STARRY SKY]/[FIREWORKS]/[BEACH]/[SNOW]/ [AERIAL PHOTO]/[FILM GRAIN]/[UNDERWATER] balance setting for a scene mode returns to [AWB] when the scene mode is changed. ) under so use [AWB] or []. Setting the white balance manually Set the white balance value. Use to match the condition when taking photographs. 2 Aim the camera at a sheet of white paper etc. so that the frame in the centre is filled by the white object only and then press [MENU/SET]. - 88 - Advanced (Recording pictures) Finely adjusting the white balance [ ] You can finely adjust the white balance when you cannot acquire the desired hue by setting the white balance. Set the white balance to [V]/[]/[]/[]/[]. 1 Press 3 [] several times until [WB ADJUST. ] appears and then press 2/1 to adjust the white balance. [. . . ] It is possible that the subject may be warped slightly, or the borders get coloured, depending on the zoom magnification, due to the characteristics of the lens, but this is not a malfunction. Zooming stops instantaneously. When using the extra optical zoom, the zooming action will stop temporarily near [W]. This is not a malfunction. Zoom does not go up to maximum magnification. (P54) Maximum zoom during macro zoom mode is 3k digital zoom. - 154 - Others The file numbers are not recorded consecutively. [. . . ]