User manual PANASONIC LUMIX DMC-ZX3

[. . . ] Operating Instructions for advanced features Digital Camera Model No. DMC-ZX3 Before use, please read these instructions completely. VQT2Q18 Contents Before Use Quick Guide . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Standard Accessories . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Names of the Components . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Playing Back Pictures ([NORMAL PLAY]) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44 Displaying Multiple Screens (Multi Playback) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45 Using the Playback Zoom . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46 Switching the [PLAYBACK] Mode . . . . . 46 Deleting Pictures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47 To delete a single picture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47 To delete multiple pictures (up to 50) or all the pictures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48 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 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 Using the Quick Menu. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 About the Setup Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 Selecting the [REC] Mode, and Record Still Picture or Motion Picture . . . . . 31 Taking the still picture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33 Recording the motion picture . . . . . . . . . . . . 33 Advanced (Recording pictures) About the LCD Monitor. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49 Taking Pictures Using the Built-in Flash. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51 Switching to the appropriate flash setting. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51 Taking Close-up Pictures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56 [AF MACRO] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56 [MACRO ZOOM] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57 Taking Pictures with the Self-timer. . . . . . . . . . 58 Compensating the Exposure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59 Taking Pictures Using Auto Bracket. . . . . . . . 60 Taking Pictures that Match the Scene Being Recorded (Scene Mode) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61 Registering scenes in Scene Mode (My Scene Mode). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61 Selecting the Scene Mode for each recording (Scene Mode) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62 [PORTRAIT] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63 [SOFT SKIN] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63 [TRANSFORM] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63 [SELF PORTRAIT] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64 [SCENERY] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64 [PANORAMA ASSIST] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65 [SPORTS] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66 [NIGHT PORTRAIT] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66 [NIGHT SCENERY]. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66 [FOOD] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67 [PARTY] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67 [CANDLE LIGHT] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67 [BABY1]/[BABY2] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68 [PET] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69 [SUNSET]. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69 [HIGH SENS. ] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69 [HI-SPEED BURST] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70 [FLASH BURST] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71 [STARRY SKY] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72 [FIREWORKS] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72 [BEACH] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73 [SNOW] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73 [AERIAL PHOTO]. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73 [PIN HOLE] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74 [FILM GRAIN]. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74 [HIGH DYNAMIC]. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75 [PHOTO FRAME]. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75 [UNDERWATER] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76 Basic Taking Pictures Using the Automatic Function (Intelligent Auto Mode) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 Scene Detection. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 AF Tracking Function. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36 [Happy] colour ([COLOR MODE]). . . . . 36 Settings in Intelligent Auto Mode . . . . . . 37 Taking Pictures with Your Favourite Settings (Normal Picture Mode) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38 Focusing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 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) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 Preventing jitter (camera shake) . . . . . . . 40 Direction Detection Function. . . . . . . . . . . . . 40 Taking Pictures with the Zoom. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41 Using the Optical Zoom/ Using the Extra Optical Zoom (EZ)/ Using the Intelligent Zoom/ Using the Digital Zoom . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41 -2- Recording Motion Picture. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77 Changing [REC MODE] and [REC QUALITY]. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81 Taking a Picture with Face Recognition Function . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84 Face Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85 Setting Auto Registration/ Sensitivity. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89 Auto Registration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90 Useful Functions at Travel Destinations (Travel Mode). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91 [TRAVEL DATE] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91 [LOCATION]. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92 [WORLD TIME] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93 Using the [REC] Mode Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95 [PICTURE SIZE] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95 [QUALITY]. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96 [ASPECT RATIO]. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97 [INTELLIGENT ISO]. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97 [SENSITIVITY] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98 [WHITE BALANCE]. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99 [FACE RECOG. ] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101 [AF MODE]. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101 [PRE AF] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104 [I. EXPOSURE] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104 [MIN. SHTR SPEED] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105 [BURST]. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106 [I. RESOLUTION]. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107 [DIGITAL ZOOM] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107 [COLOR MODE] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108 [STABILIZER] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109 [AUDIO REC. ] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110 [AF ASSIST LAMP]. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111 [RED-EYE REMOVAL] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111 [CLOCK SET]. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111 Using the [MOTION PICTURE] Mode Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112 [REC MODE]. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112 [REC QUALITY] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112 [CONTINUOUS AF] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112 [WIND CUT] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112 Taking and Viewing Clipboard Pictures (Clipboard Mode) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113 Taking Clipboard Pictures. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113 Viewing Clipboard Pictures . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115 Entering Text. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117 Playing Back Motion Pictures/ Pictures with Audio. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125 Motion pictures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125 Pictures with audio . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126 Creating Still Pictures From a Motion Picture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127 Using the [PLAYBACK] Mode Menu . . . . . 128 [CALENDAR]. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128 [TITLE EDIT] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129 [VIDEO DIVIDE] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130 [TEXT STAMP]. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131 [RESIZE] Reducing the picture size (number of pixels) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134 [CROPPING] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135 [LEVELING]. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136 [ROTATE DISP. ] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137 [FAVORITE] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138 [PRINT SET] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139 [PROTECT] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141 [FACE REC EDIT] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142 [COPY] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143 Connecting to other equipment Playing Back Pictures on a TV Screen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144 Playing back pictures using the AV cable (supplied). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144 Playing back pictures on a TV with an SD Memory Card slot. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145 Playing back on the TV with HDMI socket . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145 Saving the Recorded Still Pictures and Motion Pictures. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151 Copy the playback image using an AV cable. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151 Copying to a PC using "PHOTOfunSTUDIO 5. 0 HD Edition". . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152 Connecting to a PC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153 Printing the Pictures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157 Selecting a single picture and printing it . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 158 Selecting multiple pictures and printing them . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159 Print Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 160 Advanced (Playback) Others Playing Back Pictures in Sequence (Slide Show). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118 Selecting Pictures and Playing them Back . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121 [MODE PLAY] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121 [TRAVEL PLAY]. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122 [CATEGORY PLAY]. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123 [FAVORITE PLAY]. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124 Screen Display . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163 Cautions for Use. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 166 Message Display . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 172 Troubleshooting. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175 Number of Recordable Pictures and Available Recording Time . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 184 -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. 90 inlet type Insert the battery and the card. [. . . ] 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 [] will be used during motion picture recording. - 101 - 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], [FIREWORKS], [AERIAL PHOTO] and [UNDERWATER] 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 ]. - 102 - 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. AF tracking is turned off when 4 is pressed again. A B 2 Take the picture. Note Dynamic tracking function may fail to lock, lose the subject in AF tracking, or track different subject depending on the recording conditions such as the ones below. When the subject is too small When the recording location is too dark or bright When the subject is moving too fast When the background has the same or similar colour to the subject When jitter is occurring When using the zoom If it fails to lock, AF area will flash in red, and disappear. AF Tracking will not operate when the subject is not specified, the subject is lost, or has failed to be tracked. [. . . ] (P57) Maximum zoom during Macro Zoom Mode is 3k Digital Zoom. The file numbers are not recorded consecutively. When you perform an operation after taking a certain action, the pictures may be recorded in folders with different numbers from the ones used prior to the operation. 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. [. . . ]