User manual PANASONIC LUMIX DMC-FX66

[. . . ] Operating Instructions for advanced features Digital Camera Model No. DMC-FX66 Before use, please read these instructions completely. VQT2P83 Contents Before Use Quick Guide . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Standard Accessories . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Names of the Components . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 To delete a single picture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46 To delete multiple pictures (up to 50) or all the pictures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47 Advanced (Recording pictures) About the LCD Monitor. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48 Taking Pictures using the Built-in Flash. . . . . . 50 Switching to the appropriate flash setting. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50 Taking Close-up Pictures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55 [AF MACRO] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55 [MACRO ZOOM] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56 Taking Pictures with the Self-timer. . . . . . . . . . 57 Compensating the Exposure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58 Taking Pictures using Auto Bracket . . . . . . . . 59 Taking pictures while changing the skin texture (Cosmetic Mode) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60 Taking pictures that match the scene being recorded (Scene Mode). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61 [PORTRAIT] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62 [TRANSFORM] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62 [SELF PORTRAIT] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63 [SCENERY] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63 [PANORAMA ASSIST] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64 [SPORTS] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65 [NIGHT PORTRAIT] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65 [NIGHT SCENERY]. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65 [FOOD] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66 [PARTY] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66 [CANDLE LIGHT] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66 [BABY1]/[BABY2] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67 [PET] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68 [SUNSET]. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68 [HIGH SENS. ] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68 [HI-SPEED BURST] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69 [FLASH BURST] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70 [STARRY SKY] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71 [FIREWORKS] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71 [BEACH] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72 [SNOW] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72 [AERIAL PHOTO]. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72 [PIN HOLE] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72 [FILM GRAIN]. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73 [HIGH DYNAMIC]. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73 [PHOTO FRAME] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73 Motion Picture Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74 Taking a picture with Face Recognition function. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77 Face Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78 Setting Auto Registration/ Sensitivity. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82 Auto Registration. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83 Useful Functions at Travel Destinations . . . . . 84 Recording which Day of the Vacation You Take the Picture . . . . . . . . . 84 Preparation Charging the Battery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 Approximate operating time and number of recordable pictures . . . . . . . . . . 12 Inserting and Removing the Card (optional)/the Battery. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 About the Built-in Memory/the Card . . . . . . . . 15 Setting Date/Time (Clock Set). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 Changing the clock setting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 Setting the Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 Setting menu items . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 Using the quick menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 About the Setup Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 Selecting the [REC] Mode. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 Basic Taking pictures using the automatic function (Intelligent Auto Mode) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 Scene detection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 AF Tracking Function . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 [Happy] colour ([COLOR MODE]) . . . . . 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 Intelligent Zoom/ Using the Digital Zoom . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40 Playing back Pictures ([NORMAL PLAY]) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43 Displaying Multiple Screens (Multi Playback) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44 Using the Playback Zoom . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44 Switching the [PLAYBACK] Mode. . . . . 45 Deleting Pictures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46 -2- Recording Dates/Times at Overseas Travel Destinations (World Time) . . . . . 87 Using the [REC] Mode Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89 [PICTURE SIZE] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89 [QUALITY]. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90 [ASPECT RATIO]. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91 [INTELLIGENT ISO]. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91 [SENSITIVITY] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92 [WHITE BALANCE]. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93 [FACE RECOG. ] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95 [AF MODE]. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95 [QUICK AF] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98 [I. EXPOSURE] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98 [MIN. SHTR SPEED] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99 [BURST] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100 [I. RESOLUTION]. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101 [DIGITAL ZOOM] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101 [COLOR MODE] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102 [STABILIZER] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103 [AUDIO REC. ] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104 [AF ASSIST LAMP] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105 [RED-EYE REMOVAL] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105 [CLOCK SET]. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105 Taking and viewing clipboard pictures (Clipboard Mode) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106 Taking clipboard pictures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106 Viewing clipboard pictures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108 Entering Text. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111 Connecting to other equipment Connecting to a PC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133 Printing the Pictures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136 Selecting a single picture and printing it . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137 Selecting multiple pictures and printing them . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138 Print Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139 Playing Back Pictures on a TV Screen . . . . . 142 Playing back pictures using the AV cable (supplied). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142 Playing back pictures on a TV with an SD Memory Card slot. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143 Playing back on the TV with HDMI socket . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143 Others Screen Display . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149 Cautions for Use. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152 Message Display . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 158 Troubleshooting. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161 Number of Recordable Pictures and Available Recording Time . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 170 Advanced (Playback) Playing Back Pictures in Sequence (Slide Show). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112 Selecting Pictures and Playing them Back ([CATEGORY PLAY]/ [FAVORITE PLAY]). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114 [CATEGORY PLAY]. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114 [FAVORITE PLAY] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115 Playing Back Motion Pictures/ Pictures with Audio. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116 Motion pictures. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116 Pictures with audio . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117 Using the [PLAYBACK] Mode menu . . . . . 118 [CALENDAR] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118 [TITLE EDIT] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119 [TEXT STAMP] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120 [RESIZE] Reducing the picture size (number of pixels) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123 [CROPPING] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124 [LEVELING] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125 [ROTATE DISP. ] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126 [FAVORITE] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127 [PRINT SET] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128 [PROTECT] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130 [FACE REC EDIT]. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131 [COPY] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132 -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. [. . . ] ([ ] is displayed. ) To avoid picture noise, we recommend that you either reduce the ISO sensitivity level or set [COLOR MODE] to [NATURAL], and then take pictures. (P102) - 92 - Advanced (Recording pictures) [WHITE BALANCE] For details on [REC] Mode menu settings, refer to P20. 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] 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]. White Balance may not be set correctly when the subject is too bright or too dark. Set the White Balance again after adjusting to appropriate brightness. - 93 - 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. 1 [BLUE]: Press when the hue is reddish. Select [0] to return to the original White Balance. You can also press the shutter button halfway to finish. The White Balance icon on the screen turns red or blue. You can finely adjust the White Balance independently for each White Balance item. The White balance fine adjustment setting is reflected in the picture when using the flash. The White balance fine adjustment setting is memorised even if the camera is turned off. The White balance fine adjustment level in [] returns to [0] when you reset the White White balance fine adjustment cannot be set for [B/W], [SEPIA], [COOL] and [WARM] in [COLOR MODE]. Balance using []. 2 Auto White Balance Depending on the conditions prevailing when pictures are taken, the pictures may take on a reddish or bluish tinge. Furthermore, when a multiple number of light sources are being used or there is nothing with a colour close to white, Auto White Balance may not function properly. In a case like this, set the White Balance to a mode other than [AWB]. [. . . ] (P135) The file numbers are recorded in ascending order. If the battery was inserted or removed without first turning the camera's power off, the folder and file numbers for the pictures taken will not be stored in the memory. When the power is then turned back on and pictures are taken, they may be stored under file numbers which should have been assigned to previous pictures. [AGE] is not displayed correctly. Check the clock (P17) and birthday settings (P67). [. . . ]