User manual PANASONIC LUMIX DMC-FX550

[. . . ] Operating Instructions for advanced features Digital Camera Model No. DMC-FX550 Before use, please read these instructions completely. VQT1Y85 Contents Before Use Quick Guide . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Standard Accessories . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Names of the Components . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 How to Use the Touch Panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 What can be done by touch operation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 Deleting Pictures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49 To delete a single picture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49 To delete multiple pictures (up to 50) or all the pictures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49 Advanced (Recording pictures) About the LCD Monitor. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51 Taking Pictures using the Built-in Flash . . . . . 54 Switching to the appropriate flash setting. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54 Adjust the flash output. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57 Taking Close-up Pictures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59 Taking Pictures with the Self-timer. . . . . . . . . . 61 Taking Pictures with Focus and Exposure Set on Subject (Touch AF/AE). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62 Taking Pictures with Set Aperture (Aperture-priority AE) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63 Taking Pictures with Set Shutter Speed (Shutter-priority AE). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64 Taking Pictures with Exposure Set Manually (Manual exposure). . . . . . . . . . . . . 65 Compensating the Exposure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67 Taking Pictures using Auto Bracket/Colour Bracket . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68 Auto Bracket. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68 Colour Bracket . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69 Taking pictures that match the scene being recorded (Scene mode). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70 Registering scenes in scene mode (My scene mode) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70 Selecting the scene mode for each recording (Scene mode) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71 [PORTRAIT] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72 [SOFT SKIN] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72 [TRANSFORM] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73 [SELF PORTRAIT] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73 [SCENERY] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74 [PANORAMA ASSIST] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74 [SPORTS] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75 [NIGHT PORTRAIT] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75 [NIGHT SCENERY]. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75 [FOOD] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75 [PARTY] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76 [CANDLE LIGHT] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76 [BABY1]/[BABY2] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77 [PET] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78 [HIGH SENS. ] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78 [HI-SPEED BURST] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79 [FLASH BURST] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80 [STARRY SKY] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80 [FIREWORKS] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81 [SUNSET]. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81 [BEACH] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81 [SNOW] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81 [AERIAL PHOTO]. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81 Preparation Charging the Battery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 About the Battery (charging/ number of recordable pictures). . . . . . . . . 14 Inserting and Removing the Card (optional)/the Battery. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 About the Built-in Memory/the Card . . . . . . . . 18 Setting Date/Time (Clock Set). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 Changing the clock setting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 Setting the Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 Setting menu items . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 Using the quick menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 About the Setup Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 Selecting the [REC] Mode. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33 Basic Taking pictures using the automatic function (Intelligent Auto Mode) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 Scene detection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37 Face Recognition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38 About the flash . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38 Settings in Intelligent auto mode . . . . . . . 39 Taking pictures with your favourite settings (Programme AE mode). . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40 Focusing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41 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) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41 Preventing jitter (camera shake) . . . . . . . 42 Direction detection function. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42 Taking Pictures with the Zoom. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43 Using the Optical Zoom/ Using the Extra Optical Zoom (EZ)/ Using the Digital Zoom . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43 Using the Easy zoom . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45 Playing back Pictures ([NORMAL PLAY]) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46 Using the Touch Zoom. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47 Switching the [PLAYBACK] mode. . . . . 48 -2- [PIN HOLE] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82 [FILM GRAIN] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82 Motion Picture Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83 Taking a picture with Face Recognition function. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86 Face Recognition functions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86 Face settings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87 Useful Functions at Travel Destinations. . . . . 90 Recording which Day of the Vacation You Take the Picture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90 Recording Dates/Times at Overseas Travel Destinations (World Time) . . . . . 93 Using the [REC] Mode Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95 [PICTURE SIZE] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95 [QUALITY]. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96 [ASPECT RATIO]. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97 [INTELLIGENT ISO]. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97 [SENSITIVITY] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98 [ISO LIMIT SET]. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98 [WHITE BALANCE]. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99 [FACE RECOG. ] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101 [AF MODE]. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102 [QUICK AF] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103 [METERING MODE] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104 [I. EXPOSURE] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105 [BURST] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105 [DIGITAL ZOOM] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106 [COLOR EFFECT] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107 [PICT. ADJ. ] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107 [STABILIZER] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108 [MIN. SHTR SPEED] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108 [AUDIO REC. ] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109 [AF ASSIST LAMP] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109 [CLOCK SET]. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109 Pictures with audio . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129 Using the [PLAYBACK] mode menu . . . . . 130 [EDIT] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130 [ROTATE DISP. ] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130 [PRINT SET] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131 [AUDIO DUB. ] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133 [FACE RECOG. ] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134 [COPY] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135 Connecting to other equipment Connecting to a PC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136 Printing the Pictures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139 Selecting a single picture and printing it . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140 Selecting multiple pictures and printing them . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141 Print Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142 Playing Back Pictures on a TV Screen. . . . . 145 Playing back pictures using the AV cable (supplied). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145 Playing back pictures on a TV with an SD Memory Card slot. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146 Playing back on the TV with component socket . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147 Others Screen Display . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148 Cautions for Use. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151 Message Display . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157 Troubleshooting. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 160 Number of Recordable Pictures and Available Recording Time . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169 Advanced (Playback) Playing Back Pictures in Sequence (Slide Show). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110 Displaying Multiple Pictures ([MULTI PLAYBACK]) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113 Displaying Pictures by Recording Date ([CALENDAR]) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114 Playing Back Pictures on the Dual Display ([DUAL PLAY]) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115 Selecting Pictures and Playing them Back ([CATEGORY PLAY]/[FAVORITE PLAY]) . . . . [. . . ] 2 Press 3/4/2/1 to move the cursor to [EXIT] and then press [MENU/SET] to end text input. Press [DISPLAY] to switch text between [A] (capitals), [a] (lower case) and [&/1] (special characters and numbers). Press [MENU/SET] twice to close the menu. Take a picture. The number of days that have passed since the departure date is displayed for about 5 seconds if this unit is turned on etc. after setting the travel date or when the travel date is set. When the travel date is set, [--] appears on the lower right of the screen. - 91 - Advanced (Recording pictures) Cancelling the travel date The travel date is automatically cancelled if the current date is after the return date. If you want to cancel the travel date before the end of the vacation, select [OFF] on the screen shown in step 3 or 7 and then press [MENU/SET] twice. If the [TRAVEL SETUP] is set to [OFF] in step 3, [LOCATION] will be also set to [OFF]. Note The travel date is calculated using the date in the clock setting and the departure date you set. If you set [WORLD TIME] (P93) to the travel destination, the travel date is calculated using the date in the clock setting and the travel destination setting. The travel date setting is memorised even if the camera is turned off. If [TRAVEL DATE] is set to [OFF], the number of days that have passed since the departure date will not be recorded even if you set the travel date or the return date. Even if [TRAVEL DATE] is set to [SET] after taking the pictures, which day of the vacation you took them is not displayed. If you set a departure date and then take a picture on a date before this departure date, [-] (minus) is displayed in orange and the day of the vacation that you took the picture is not recorded. If the travel date is displayed as [-] (minus) in white, there is a time difference that involves date change between the [HOME] and [DESTINATION]. (It will be recorded) The text set as [LOCATION] can be edited later with [TITLE EDIT]. The names for [BABY1]/[BABY2] and [PET] will not be recorded when [LOCATION] is set. [LOCATION] cannot be recorded when taking motion pictures. Setting of other recording mode will be reflected. - 92 - Advanced (Recording pictures) Recording Dates/Times at Overseas Travel Destinations (World Time) For details on the [SETUP] menu settings, refer to P23. You can display the local times at the travel destinations and record them on the pictures you take. Select [CLOCK SET] to set the current date and time in advance. (P20) Select [WORLD TIME] from the [SETUP] menu, and then press 1. When first using the camera after purchasing it, the [PLEASE SET THE HOME AREA] message appears. Press [MENU/ SET], and set the home area on the screen in step 3. Press 4 to select [HOME], and then press [MENU/SET]. Press 2/1 to select the home area, and then press [MENU/SET]. A A Current time B Time difference from GMT (Greenwich Mean Time) B If daylight saving time [ ] is used at the home area, press 3. Press 3 again to return to the original time. [. . . ] At some magnification levels, the pictures taken are slightly distorted or the outlines and other areas in the pictures taken are coloured, 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. - 167 - Others Zoom does not go up to maximum magnification. (P59) Maximum zoom during macro zoom mode is 3k digital zoom. The file numbers are not recorded consecutively. [. . . ]