Panasonic DMC-FX500 operating instructions Contents

Contents
Before Use
Information for Your Safety	2
Quick Guide	8
Standard Accessories	9
Names of the Components	10
How to Use the Touch Panel	12
• What can be done
by touch operation	13
Preparation
Charging the Battery	14
About the Battery
(charging/number of
recordable pictures)	15
Inserting and Removing the Card
(optional)/the Battery	16
About the Built-in Memory/the Card	17
Setting Date/Time (Clock Set)	18
• Changing the clock setting
(In program AE mode)	19
Setting the Menu	20
• Setting menu items	21
• Using the quick menu	22
About the Setup Menu	23
Selecting the [REC] Mode	28
Basic
Taking pictures using
the automatic function
(ñ: Intelligent Auto Mode)	29
• Scene detection	30
• The Backlight Compensation	30
• About the flash	31
• Settings in Intelligent auto mode	31
Taking pictures with
your favorite settings
(³: Program AE mode)	32
• Focusing	33
• 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)	33
• Preventing jitter (camera shake)	33
Taking Pictures with the Zoom	34
• Using the Optical Zoom/
Using the Extended Optical Zoom (EZ)/
Using the Digital Zoom	34
Playing back Pictures
([NORMAL PLAY])	36
• Using the Touch Zoom	36
• Switching the [PLAYBACK] mode	37

Deleting Pictures	38
• To delete a single picture	38

•To delete multiple pictures

(up to 50) or all the pictures	38
Advanced (Recording pictures)
About the LCD Monitor	40
Taking Pictures using
the Built-in Flash	42
• Switching to
the appropriate flash setting	42
Taking Close-up Pictures	45
Taking Pictures with the Self-timer	46
Taking Pictures with Focus and
Exposure Set on Subject
(Touch AF/AE)	47
Taking Pictures with Set Aperture
(±: Aperture-priority AE)	48
Taking Pictures with Set Shutter Speed
(´: Shutter-priority AE)	49
Taking Pictures with
Exposure Set Manually
(²: Manual exposure)	50
Aperture Value and Shutter Speed	51
Compensating the Exposure	52
Taking Pictures using Auto Bracket	53
Taking pictures that match
the scene being recorded
(¿: Scene mode)	54
• * [PORTRAIT]	54
• + [SOFT SKIN]	55
• 0 [SELF PORTRAIT]	55
• , [SCENERY]	55
• - [SPORTS]	55
• . [NIGHT PORTRAIT]	56
• / [NIGHT SCENERY]	56
• 1 [FOOD]	56
• 2 [PARTY]	56
• 3 [CANDLE LIGHT]	57
• : [BABY1]/; [BABY2]	57
• í [PET]	58
• ï [SUNSET]	58
• 9 [HIGH SENS.]	58
• ô [HI-SPEED BURST]	59
• 5 [STARRY SKY]	59
• 4 [FIREWORKS]	60
• 6 [BEACH]	60
• 8 [SNOW]	60
• 7 [AERIAL PHOTO]	60
Motion Picture Mode	61
Useful Functions at Travel Destinations	63
• Recording which Day of
the Vacation You Take the Picture	63
• Recording Dates/
Times at Overseas
Travel Destinations (World Time)	64

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