User manual PANASONIC LUMIX DMC-FZ38

[. . . ] Operating Instructions for advanced features Digital Camera Model No. DMC-FZ38 Before use, please read these instructions completely. VQT2F13 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 Approximate operating time and 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 Extra 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/ Colour Bracket. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76 Auto Bracket. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76 Colour 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 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 colour (My colour 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 record still picture or motion picture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 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 favourite settings (Programme AE Mode). . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48 Focusing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49 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) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49 Preventing jitter (camera shake) . . . . . . . 50 Direction detection function. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50 Enlarge the focus point (display focus point). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50 Programme 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 Picture 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. Charge the battery before use. 90 inlet type Insert the battery and the card. [. . . ] 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. 2 Press 2/1 to select the items (Year/Month/Day), and then press 3/4 to set and then press [MENU/SET]. 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. 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]. 9 Use the operation in step 3 and following 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]. 9 Use the operation in step 5 and following in "Registering face image of new person". Deleting the information for a registered person Deleting information of a registered person. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Select [FACE RECOG. ] from the [REC] Mode menu, and then press 1. Press 3/4/2/1 to select the image of the person to delete and then press [MENU/SET]. You can also press the shutter button halfway to close the menu. - 121 - Advanced (Recording pictures) Auto Registration When [AUTO REGISTRATION] is set to [ON] in step 3 of "Change the information for a registered person" (P121) while [FACE RECOG. ] in the [REC] Mode menu is set to [ON], the registration screen will display automatically after taking a picture of a face that has a high number of appearances. (It is not counted when Burst It may be extremely hard to recognise only with [AUTO REGISTRATION], so register the face images with [FACE RECOG. ] in the [REC] Mode menu beforehand. and Auto Bracket/Colour Bracket is set. ) Registering from the automatic registration screen 1 Press 3 to select [YES] and then press [MENU/SET]. Selection screen is displayed again when [NO] is selected, and when [YES] is selected with 3, [AUTO REGISTRATION] will be 2 Press 3/4 to select [NEW PERSON] or [ADDITIONAL IMAGE] and then press [MENU/SET]. Item [NEW PERSON] Description of settings set to [OFF]. A list of registered people is displayed when there are 6 people already registered. Select the person to be replaced. To additionally register a face image for a registered person. Press 3/4/2/1 to select the person to whom you wish add the picture, and then press [MENU/SET]. [ADDITIONAL IMAGE] If 3 images have already been registered, the picture replacement screen will appear. In this case, select the picture you wish to replace. After additionally registering or changing a face image, the screen returns automatically to the recording screen. 3 Use the operation in Step 5 and following in "Registering face image of new person". Note If the registration screen will not display, it may display easier by recording in the same If a face is not recognised even though it is registered, it will make the recognition easier by conditions or with the same expressions. [. . . ] At some magnification levels, the pictures taken are slightly distorted or the outlines and other areas in the pictures taken are coloured, but this is not a malfunction. Zoom does not go up to maximum magnification. (P72) 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. [. . . ]