Panasonic DMCFZ100 DMCFZ100 User Guide - Page 2

Contents Before Use Quick Guide 5 Standard Accessories 7 Names of the Components 8 Rotating the LCD monitor 11 Operating the Rear Dial 12 Attaching the Lens Cap/Shoulder Strap....13 Attaching the Lens Hood 15 Preparation Charging the Battery 16 • Approximate recording time and number of recordable pictures ..........19 Inserting and Removing the Card (optional)/the Battery 21 About the Built-in Memory/the Card ........23 Setting Date/Time (Clock Set 25 • Changing the clock setting 26 Setting the Menu 27 • Setting menu items 28 • Using the quick menu 30 About the Setup Menu 31 Holding and using your camera 41 Basic Selecting the [REC] Mode, and record still picture or motion picture 45 • Taking the still picture 47 • Recording the motion picture 47 Taking pictures using the automatic function (Intelligent Auto Mode 48 • Scene Detection 49 • AF Tracking Function 50 • Settings in Intelligent Auto Mode ......51 Taking pictures with your favorite settings (Program AE Mode) ......53 • Focusing 54 • 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 54 • Preventing jitter (camera shake) .......55 • Program shift 56 Taking Pictures with the Zoom 57 • Using the Optical Zoom/ Using the Extended Optical Zoom (EZ)/ Using the Intelligent Zoom/ Using the Digital Zoom 57 Playing back Pictures ([NORMAL PLAY 60 • Displaying Multiple Screens (Multi Playback 61 • Using the Playback Zoom 62 • Enlarge the focus point (display focus point 63 • Switching the [PLAYBACK] Mode .....63 Deleting Pictures 64 • To delete a single picture 64 • To delete multiple pictures (up to 100) or all the pictures 65 Advanced (Recording pictures) About the LCD Monitor/Viewfinder ..........66 Taking Pictures using the Built-in Flash .....69 • Switching to the appropriate flash setting 69 Taking Close-up Pictures 74 Taking Pictures with Manual Focus.........75 Taking Pictures with the Self-Timer.........77 Compensating the Exposure 78 Taking Pictures using Auto Bracket ........79 Setting the Light Sensitivity 80 Taking Pictures using Burst Mode...........82 Taking pictures by specifying the aperture/ shutter speed 85 • Aperture-Priority AE 85 • Shutter-Priority AE 85 Taking picture by setting the exposure manually 86 Aperture Value and Shutter Speed .........87 Taking pictures while adjusting color (My Color Mode 88 • Adjusting the custom settings to achieve desired effects 90 Taking expressive portraits and landscape pictures (Advanced Scene Mode 91 • [PORTRAIT 92 • [SCENERY 93 • [SPORTS 93 • [CLOSE-UP 94 • [NIGHT PORTRAIT 95 Taking pictures that match the scene being recorded (Scene Mode 96 • [PANORAMA ASSIST 97 • [PARTY 98 • [CANDLE LIGHT 98 • [BABY1]/ [BABY2 99 • [PET 100 • [SUNSET 100 • [HIGH SENS 100 • [FLASH BURST 101 • [PANNING 102 • [STARRY SKY 103 • [FIREWORKS 104 • [BEACH 105 - 2 -