Panasonic DMC-FX55 operating instructions Contents

Contents
Before Use
Information for Your Safety	2
Preparation
Standard Accessories	8
Names of the Components	8
Quick Guide	9
Charging the Battery with the
Charger	10
About the Battery (charging/number of
recordable pictures)	11
Inserting and Removing the Card
(optional)/the Battery	12
About the Built-in Memory/the Card
(optional)	13
Setting Date/Time (Clock Set)	14
• Changing the clock setting	14
About the Mode Dial	15
Setting the Menu	16
About the Setup Menu	17
LCD Monitor Display/Switching the LCD
Monitor Display	20
Basic
Taking Pictures	22
Taking pictures using the automatic
function (Intelligent Auto Mode)	24
Taking Pictures with the Zoom	26
• Using the Optical Zoom/Using the
Extended Optical Zoom (EZ)	26
• Using the Digital Zoom
Further extending the zoom	27
Checking the Recorded Picture
(Review)	28
Playing back/Deleting Pictures	28
Advanced (Recording pictures)
About the LCD Monitor	31
• Changing the information
displayed	31

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• Brightening the LCD Monitor	33
Taking Pictures using the
Built-in Flash	34
Taking Pictures with the Self-timer	38
Compensating the Exposure	39
Taking Pictures using Auto Bracket	40
Taking Close-up Pictures	41
Taking pictures that match the scene
being recorded (Scene mode)	42
• [PORTRAIT]	43
• [SOFT SKIN]	43
• [SELF PORTRAIT]	43
• [SCENERY]	44
• [SPORTS]	44
• [NIGHT PORTRAIT]	44
• [NIGHT SCENERY]	44
• [FOOD]	45
• [PARTY]	45
• [CANDLE LIGHT]	45
• [BABY1]/[BABY2]	45
• [PET]	46
• [SUNSET]	47
• [HIGH SENS.]	47
• [HI-SPEED BURST]	47
• [STARRY SKY]	48
• [FIREWORKS]	49
• [BEACH]	49
• [SNOW]	49
• [AERIAL PHOTO]	49
Motion Picture Mode	50
Recording which Day of the Vacation
You Take the Picture	51
Displaying the Time at the Travel
Destination (World Time)	53
Using the [REC] Mode Menu	55
• [W.BALANCE]	56
• [INTELLIGENT ISO]	57
• [SENSITIVITY]	58
• [ASPECT RATIO]	59
• [PICT.SIZE]/[QUALITY]	59
• [AUDIO REC.]	60
• [AF MODE]	61
• [STABILIZER]	62
• [BURST]	63
• [AF ASSIST LAMP]	64
• [SLOW SHUTTER]	64

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