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. Charge the battery before use. inlet type Insert the battery and the card. [. . . ] In a case like this, set the White Balance to a mode other than [AWB]. 2 Blue sky 3 Cloudy sky (Rain) 4 Shade 5 TV screen 6 Sunlight 7 White fluorescent light 8 Incandescent light bulb 9 Sunrise and sunset 10 Candlelight KlKelvin colour Temperature 2) 3) 4) 1) 6) 7) 5) 8) 9) 10) - 94 - Advanced (Recording pictures) [FACE RECOG. ] For details on [REC] Mode menu settings, refer to P20. Applicable modes: [OFF]/[ON]/[MEMORY]/[SET] Note Refer to P77 for details. [AF MODE] For details on [REC] Mode menu settings, refer to P20. This allows the focusing method that suits the positions and number of the subjects to be selected. Applicable modes: The camera automatically detects the person's face. The focus and exposure can then be adjusted to fit the face no matter what portion of the picture it is in. This is effective when the subject is not in the centre of the screen. The camera quickly focuses on the subject in the AF area on the centre of the screen. The camera focuses on the subject in the AF area on the centre of the screen. The camera focuses on a limited narrow area in the screen. [s]: Face Detection [ [ ]: AF Tracking ]: 11-area-focusing []: 1-area-focusing (High speed) []: 1-area-focusing []: Spot-focusing - 95 - Advanced (Recording pictures) Note The camera is focusing on all the AF areas when multiple AF areas (max. If you want to determine the focus position to take pictures, switch the AF Mode to [], [] or []. If the AF Mode is set to [ ], the AF area is not displayed until the picture is brought into focus. In this case, switch the AF Mode to any modes other than [s] and then take a picture. In [PANORAMA ASSIST], [NIGHT SCENERY], [FOOD], [STARRY SKY] and [AERIAL PHOTO] in Scene Mode. About [s] (Face Detection) The following AF area frames are displayed when the camera detects the faces. Yellow: When the shutter button is pressed halfway, the frame turns green when the camera is focused. Other faces that are the same distance away as faces within the yellow AF areas are also focused. Under certain picture-taking conditions including the following cases, the facial recognition function may fail to work, making it impossible to detect faces. [AF MODE] is switched to [ When the face is not facing the camera When the face is at an angle When the face is extremely bright or dark When there is little contrast on the faces When the facial features are hidden behind sunglasses, etc. When the face appears small on the screen When there is rapid movement When the subject is other than a human being When the camera is shaking When Digital Zoom is used ]. - 96 - Advanced (Recording pictures) About [] [1-area-focusing (High speed)] You can focus on the subject more quickly than in other AF Modes. The picture may stop moving for a moment before being brought into focus when you press the shutter button halfway. This is not a malfunction. Setting up [ ] (AF Tracking) Before locking Locked 1 Bring the subject to the AF tracking frame, and press 4 to lock the subject. A AF tracking frame (White) B AF tracking frame (Yellow) AF tracking frame will continuously focus on the subject's movement once the subject is recognised. [. . . ] 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 or the Intelligent Zoom, the zooming action will stop temporarily. This is not a malfunction. Zoom does not go up to maximum magnification. (P56) Maximum zoom during Macro Zoom Mode is 3k Digital Zoom. The file numbers are not recorded consecutively. [. . . ]