User manual PANASONIC LUMIX DMC-FH120

[. . . ] Operating Instructions for advanced features Digital Camera Model No. DMC-FH20 DMC-FH3 DMC-FH1 Before use, please read these instructions completely. VQT2P15 Contents Before Use Quick Guide . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Standard Accessories . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Names of the Components . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 To delete a single picture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43 To delete multiple pictures (up to 50) or all the pictures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44 Advanced (Recording pictures) About the LCD Monitor. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45 Taking Pictures using the Built-in Flash. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47 Switching to the appropriate flash setting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47 Taking Close-up Pictures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52 [AF MACRO] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52 [MACRO ZOOM] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53 Taking Pictures with the Self-timer. . . . . . . . . . 54 Compensating the Exposure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55 Taking pictures that match the scene being recorded (Scene Mode). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56 Registering scenes in Scene Mode (My Scene Mode). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56 Selecting the Scene Mode for each recording (Scene Mode). . . . . . . . . . . 57 [PORTRAIT] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58 [SOFT SKIN] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58 [TRANSFORM] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59 [SELF PORTRAIT] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59 [SCENERY] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60 [SPORTS] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60 [NIGHT PORTRAIT] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60 [NIGHT SCENERY]. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61 [FOOD] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61 [PARTY] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62 [CANDLE LIGHT] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62 [BABY1]/[BABY2] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63 [PET] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64 [SUNSET]. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64 [HIGH SENS. ] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64 [HI-SPEED BURST] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65 [FLASH BURST] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66 [STARRY SKY] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67 [FIREWORKS] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68 [BEACH] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68 [SNOW] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68 [AERIAL PHOTO]. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69 [FILM GRAIN]. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69 [PHOTO FRAME] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69 Motion Picture Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70 Useful Functions at Travel Destinations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73 Recording which Day of the Vacation You Take the Picture . . . . . . . . . 73 Recording Dates/Times at Overseas Travel Destinations (World Time) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76 Using the [REC] Mode Menu. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78 Preparation Charging the Battery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 Approximate operating time and 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. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29 Basic Taking pictures using the automatic function (Intelligent Auto Mode) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31 Scene detection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33 Settings in Intelligent Auto Mode . . . . . . 34 Taking pictures with your favourite settings (Normal Picture Mode). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 Focusing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36 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). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36 Preventing jitter (camera shake) . . . . . . . 37 Direction detection function. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37 Taking Pictures with the Zoom. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38 Using the Optical Zoom/ Using the Extra Optical Zoom (EZ) /Using the Digital Zoom . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38 Playing back Pictures ([NORMAL PLAY]) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40 Displaying Multiple Screens (Multi Playback) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41 Using the Playback Zoom . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41 Switching the [PLAYBACK] Mode. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42 Deleting Pictures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43 -2- [PICTURE SIZE] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78 [SENSITIVITY] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80 [WHITE BALANCE]. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81 [AF MODE]. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83 [BURST] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85 [DIGITAL ZOOM] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86 [COLOR MODE] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86 [STABILIZER] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87 [AF ASSIST LAMP] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88 [RED-EYE REMOVAL] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88 [CLOCK SET]. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88 Entering Text. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89 Others Screen Display . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119 Cautions for Use. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122 Message Display . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128 Troubleshooting. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131 Number of Recordable Pictures and Available Recording Time . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140 Advanced (Playback) Playing Back Pictures in Sequence (Slide Show). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90 Selecting Pictures and Playing them Back ([CATEGORY PLAY]/ [FAVORITE PLAY]) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93 [CATEGORY PLAY]. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93 [FAVORITE PLAY] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94 Playing Back Motion Pictures. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95 Using the [PLAYBACK] Mode menu . . . . . . . 96 [CALENDAR] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96 [TEXT STAMP] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97 [RESIZE] Reducing the Picture Size (number of pixels) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99 [CROPPING] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101 [ROTATE DISP. ] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102 [FAVORITE] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103 [PRINT SET] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104 [PROTECT] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106 [COPY] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107 About illustrations in these operating instructions The procedure is described for DMC-FH1 as an example. Connecting to other equipment Connecting to a PC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108 Printing the Pictures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111 Selecting a single picture and printing it . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112 Selecting multiple pictures and printing them . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113 Print Settings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114 Playing Back Pictures on a TV Screen. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117 Playing back pictures using the AV cable (supplied). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117 Playing back pictures on a TV with an SD Memory Card slot . . . . . . . . . 118 -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. (P9) The battery is not charged when the camera is shipped. Charge the battery before use. inlet type Insert the battery and the card. [. . . ] 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. - 74 - 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] (P76) 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 [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) [LOCATION] cannot be recorded when taking motion pictures. Setting of other Recording Mode will be reflected. - 75 - Advanced (Recording pictures) Recording Dates/Times at Overseas Travel Destinations (World Time) For details on the [SETUP] menu settings, refer to P21. 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. (P18) 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 B Time difference from GMT (Greenwich Mean Time) If daylight saving time [ ] is used at the home area, press 3. Press 3 again to return to the original time. The daylight saving time setting for the home area does not advance the current time. Advance the clock setting by one hour. Press 3 to select [DESTINATION] and then press [MENU/SET] to set. C Depending on the setting, the time at the travel destination C area or the home area is displayed. Press 2/1 to select the area the travel destination is in and then press [MENU/SET] to set. D E D Current time of the destination area E Time difference If daylight saving time [ ] is used at the travel destination, press 3. (The time advances by one hour. ) Press 3 again to return to the original time. Press [MENU/SET] to close the menu. - 76 - Advanced (Recording pictures) Note Return the setting to [HOME] when the vacation is finished by performing steps 1, 2 and 3. If [HOME] is already set, change only the travel destination, and use. [. . . ] (For details, refer to the operating instructions for the printer. ) > When you order photo studios to print pictures, ask the photo studio if the 16:9 pictures can be printed. - 137 - Others Others An unreadable language was selected by mistake. > Press [MENU/SET], select the [SETUP] menu icon [ the desired language. (P28) ] and then select the [~] icon to set A red lamp sometimes turns on when the shutter button is pressed halfway. In dark places, the AF assist lamp (P88) lights red to make it easier to focus on a subject. The AF assist lamp does not turn on. Is [AF ASSIST LAMP] on the [REC] Mode menu set to [ON]?(P88) The AF assist lamp does not turn on in bright places. The camera becomes warm. The surface of the camera may become warm during use. This does not affect the performance or quality of the camera. The lens clicks. When the brightness changes due to zoom or camera movement etc. , the lens may click and the picture on the screen may drastically change. [. . . ]