User manual PANASONIC LUMIX DMCIX DMC-IX DMC-FZ35-ADV

[. . . ] Operating Instructions for advanced features Digital Camera Model No. DMC-FZ35 Before connecting, operating or adjusting this product, please read the instructions completely. VQT2F10 Contents Before Use Quick Guide . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Standard Accessories . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Names of the Components . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 Attaching the Lens Cap/ Shoulder Strap . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 Attaching the Lens Hood. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 Preparation Charging the Battery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 About the Battery (charging/ number of recordable pictures). . . . . . . . . 18 Inserting and Removing the Card (optional)/the Battery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 About the Built-in Memory/the Card . . . . . . . . 22 Setting Date/Time (Clock Set). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 Changing the clock setting. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 Setting the Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 Setting menu items . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 Using the quick menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29 About the Setup Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 Using the Optical Zoom/ Using the Extended Optical zoom (EZ)/Using the Digital Zoom. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52 Playing back Pictures ([NORMAL PLAY]) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55 Confirm the picture in [REC] Mode (Review). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56 Displaying Multiple Screens (Multi Playback) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56 Using the Playback Zoom . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56 Switching the [PLAYBACK] Mode . . . . . 57 Deleting Pictures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58 To delete a single picture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58 To delete multiple pictures (up to 50) or all the pictures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59 Advanced (Recording pictures) About the LCD Monitor/Viewfinder. . . . . . . . . . 60 Taking Pictures using the Built-in Flash. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64 Switching to the appropriate flash setting. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64 Taking Close-up Pictures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70 [AF MACRO] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71 [MACRO ZOOM] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72 Taking Pictures with the Self-timer. . . . . . . . . . 73 Compensating the Exposure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75 Taking Pictures using Auto Bracket/ Color Bracket. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76 Auto Bracket. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76 Color Bracket . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77 Taking Pictures using Burst Mode. . . . . . . . . . . 78 Taking pictures by specifying the aperture / shutter speed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80 Aperture-priority AE. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80 Shutter-priority AE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80 Taking a picture by setting the exposure manually . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81 Aperture Value and Shutter Speed . . . . . . . . . 82 Taking Pictures with Manual Focus. . . . . . . . . 83 MF ASSIST . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84 Taking pictures while adjusting color (My color mode) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86 Registering Personal Menu Settings (Registering custom settings). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88 Taking pictures in Custom Mode. . . . . . . . . . . . . 89 Taking expressive portraits and landscape pictures (Advanced Scene Mode). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90 [PORTRAIT] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91 [SCENERY] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92 [SPORTS] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92 [CLOSE-UP]. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93 Basic Selecting the [REC] mode, and recording still pictures or motion pictures. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 Taking the still picture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42 Recording the motion picture . . . . . . . . . . . . 42 Taking pictures using the automatic function (Intelligent Auto Mode) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43 Scene detection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44 AF Tracking Function. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45 Settings in Intelligent Auto Mode . . . . . . 46 Taking pictures with your favorite settings (Program AE Mode). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48 Focusing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49 When the subject is not in focus (such as when it is not in the center of the composition of the picture you want to take) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49 Preventing jitter (camera shake) . . . . . . . 50 Direction detection function. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50 Enlarge the focus point (display focus point). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50 Program shift. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51 Taking Pictures with the Zoom. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52 -2- [NIGHT PORTRAIT]. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94 Taking pictures that match the scene being recorded (Scene Mode). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95 [PANORAMA ASSIST]. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96 [PARTY] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97 [CANDLE LIGHT]. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97 [BABY1]/ [BABY2]. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98 [PET] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99 [SUNSET] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99 [HIGH SENS. ] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99 [HI-SPEED BURST]. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100 [FLASH BURST] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101 [PANNING]. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102 [STARRY SKY] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103 [FIREWORKS] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104 [BEACH]. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105 [SNOW]. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105 [AERIAL PHOTO] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105 [PIN HOLE] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106 [FILM GRAIN] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106 [HIGH DYNAMIC] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107 [PHOTO FRAME]. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107 Recording Motion Picture. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108 Changing [REC MODE] and [REC QUALITY]. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112 Recording Motion Pictures with Manual Settings (Creative Motion Picture Mode) . . . . . . . . . . . . 115 Taking a picture with Face Recognition function. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117 Face Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118 Auto Registration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122 Sensitivity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123 Useful Functions at Travel Destinations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124 Recording which Day of the Vacation and the Location of the Vacation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124 Recording Dates/Times at Overseas Travel Destinations (World Time) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127 Using the [REC] Mode menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129 [PICTURE SIZE] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129 [QUALITY]. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130 [ASPECT RATIO]. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131 [INTELLIGENT ISO]. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131 [SENSITIVITY] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132 [ISO LIMIT SET]. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132 [WHITE BALANCE]. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133 [FACE RECOG. ] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135 [AF MODE]. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136 [PRE AF] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140 [AF/AE LOCK]. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141 [METERING MODE] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142 [I. EXPOSURE] (Intelligent exposure adjustment) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142 [MIN. SHTR SPEED]. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143 [DIGITAL ZOOM] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143 [COLOR EFFECT] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144 [PICT. ADJ. ] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144 [STABILIZER]. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145 [AF ASSIST LAMP] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146 [FLASH SYNCHRO]. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147 [RED-EYE REMOVAL]. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147 [CONVERSION] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148 [CLOCK SET] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148 Using the [MOTION PICTURE] Mode menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149 [REC MODE] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149 [REC QUALITY] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149 [EXPOSURE MODE] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149 [CONTINUOUS AF] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150 [WIND CUT] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150 Advanced (Playback) Playing Back Pictures in Sequence (Slide Show) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151 Selecting Pictures and Playing them Back ([MODE PLAY]/ [CATEGORY PLAY]/ [FAVORITE PLAY]). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154 [MODE PLAY] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154 [CATEGORY PLAY] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154 [FAVORITE PLAY] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155 Playing Back Motion Pictures. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 156 Motion pictures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 156 Using the [PLAYBACK] Mode menu . . . . . 157 [CALENDAR]. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157 [TITLE EDIT] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 158 [TEXT STAMP]. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 160 [RESIZE] Reducing the picture size (number of pixels) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 162 [TRIMMING] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163 [LEVELING]. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164 [ROTATE DISP. ] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165 [FAVORITE] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 166 [PRINT SET] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167 [PROTECT] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169 [FACE REC EDIT] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 170 [COPY] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171 Connecting to other equipment Playing Back Pictures on a TV Screen. . . . . 172 Playing back pictures using the AV cable (supplied). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 172 Playing back pictures on a TV with an SD Memory Card slot. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173 -3- Playing back on the TV with HDMI socket . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173 Saving the recorded still pictures and motion pictures. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179 Copy the playback image using an AV cable . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179 Copying to a PC. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 180 Connecting to a PC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 180 Printing the Pictures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 184 Selecting a single picture and printing it . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185 Selecting multiple pictures and printing them . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 186 Print Settings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187 Using the Conversion Lens (optional) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 190 Using the Protector/Filter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 192 Others Screen Display . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193 Cautions for Use . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 196 Message Display. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201 Troubleshooting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 204 Number of Recordable Pictures and Available Recording Time . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 215 -4- 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. [. . . ] Press 1, select item to edit with 3/4, and then press 1. You can register up to 3 face images. To register further pictures, press 2 to select the face image and press [MENU/SET]. Then press 3/4 to select [ADDITIONAL IMAGE], press [MENU/SET] and return to step 3. - 119 - Advanced (Recording pictures) Item Description of settings [NAME] It is possible to register names. 1 Press 4 to select [SET] and then press [MENU/SET]. For details on how to enter characters, read the [TITLE EDIT] section on P158. [PRIORITY] The focus and exposure are preferentially adjusted for higher-priority faces. Press 3/4/2/1 to select the priority and then press [MENU/SET]. It is possible to register the birthday. 1 Press 4 to select [SET] and then press [MENU/SET]. 2 Press 2/1 to select the items (Year/Month/Day), and then press 3/4 to set and then press [MENU/SET]. Change the displayed focus icon when the subject is focused. Press 3/4 to select the focus icon, and then press [MENU/ SET]. [AGE] [FOCUS ICON] Press [MENU/SET] to close the menu. About the information When [DISPLAY] is pressed on the recording screen described in step 3, an explanation appears for taking face images. (Press again to return to the recording screen. ) - 120 - Advanced (Recording pictures) Change the information for a registered person You can add a picture to the information of the registered people, replace or delete the pictures which have already been registered, and information such as names and register priority. 1 2 3 4 5 Select [FACE RECOG. ] from the [REC] Mode menu, and then press 1. (P27) Press 4 to select [SET] and press [MENU/SET]. Press 3 to select [EDIT] and then press [MENU/SET]. Press 3/4/2/1 to select the person to edit and then press [MENU/SET]. To change [NAME], [PRIORITY], [AGE] or [FOCUS ICON] information, go to step 5 of "Registering face image of new person". Press 2 to select the image of person, and then press [MENU/SET]. To add or replace a face image 6 Press 3 to select [ADDITIONAL IMAGE], and then press [MENU/SET]. 7 Press 2/1 to select the face image to replace, and then press [MENU/SET]. 8 Press 3 to select [YES] and then press [MENU/SET]. 9 Perform step 3 in "Registering face image of new person". To delete a face image 6 Press 4 to select [DELETE], and then press [MENU/SET]. When only one picture has been registered, you cannot select [DELETE]. 7 Press 2/1 to select the face image to delete, and then press [MENU/SET]. [. . . ] The number of recordable pictures and the available recording time varies depending on the subjects. (These vary depending on the recording conditions and the type of card. ) Number of recordable pictures Aspect ratio Picture size Quality Built-in Memory (Approx. 40 MB) 2 1 3 7 16 32 66 135 260 400 540 820 1100 2210 1 0 2 6 12 26 53 105 210 320 440 660 880 1780 A 5 3 8 17 35 70 140 290 570 860 1160 1750 2340 4690 > 12 8 17 35 70 135 280 560 1110 1690 2270 3420 4570 9170 A 8 5 12 25 50 99 200 400 800 1220 1630 2460 3290 6600 X ( ) > 17 11 24 50 98 195 390 790 1560 2380 3180 4810 6410 12870 A 12 8 18 37 73 145 290 590 1170 1780 2380 3590 4790 9620 ( ) > 25 16 35 72 140 280 560 1130 2230 3390 4540 6860 9150 18350 Card 32 MB 64 MB 128 MB 256 MB 512 MB 1 GB 2 GB 4 GB 6 GB 8 GB 12 GB 16 GB 32 GB - 215 - Others Aspect ratio Picture size Quality Built-in Memory (Approx. 40 MB) A 27 18 37 77 150 300 600 1220 2410 3660 4910 7400 9880 19820 ( ) > 53 35 73 145 290 580 1160 2360 4640 7050 9440 14240 19000 38120 A 43 29 60 120 240 470 950 1910 3770 5730 7670 11570 X ( ) > 81 54 110 220 440 880 1770 3610 7090 10790 14440 21790 29060 58310 A 195 130 270 550 1080 2150 4310 8770 17240 26210 35080 52920 70590 ( ) > 310 200 420 860 1690 3350 6710 12290 24130 36700 49120 74090 98830 Card 32 MB 64 MB 128 MB 256 MB 512 MB 1 GB 2 GB 4 GB 6 GB 8 GB 12 GB 16 GB 32 GB 15440 30970 141620 198260 - 216 - Others Aspect ratio Picture size Quality Built-in Memory (Approx. 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