Panasonic DMC-FX580, DMCFX580S 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	18
Setting Date/Time (Clock Set)	19
• Changing the clock setting	20
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
• Face Recognition	31
• 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)	34
• Direction detection function	34
Taking Pictures with the Zoom	34
• Using the Optical Zoom/Using the
Extended Optical Zoom (EZ)/
Using the Digital Zoom	34
• Using the Easy zoom	36
Playing back Pictures
([NORMAL PLAY])	37
• Using the Touch Zoom	37
• Switching the [PLAYBACK] Mode	38

Deleting Pictures	40
• To delete a single picture	40
• To delete multiple pictures	40
(up to 50) or all the pictures

Advanced (Recording pictures)

About the LCD Monitor			41
Taking Pictures using the Built-in Flash			43
• Switching to the appropriate flash			43
	setting
• Adjust the flash output			45
Taking Close-up Pictures			46
Taking Pictures with the Self-timer			47
Taking Pictures with Focus and Exposure			48
Set on Subject (Touch AF/AE)
Taking Pictures with Set Aperture			49
(±: Aperture-priority AE)
Taking Pictures with Set Shutter Speed			50
(´: Shutter-priority AE)
Taking Pictures with Exposure Set			51
Manually (²: Manual exposure)
Compensating the Exposure			53
Taking Pictures using			54
Auto Bracket/Color Bracket
• Auto Bracket			54
• Color Bracket			55
Taking pictures that match the scene			55
being recorded (Scene Mode)
• Registering scenes in Scene Mode			55
(		: My Scene Mode)
• Selecting the Scene Mode for each			56
	recording (¿: Scene Mode)
• * [PORTRAIT]			57
• + [SOFT SKIN]			57
•		...........................[TRANSFORM]	57
•	0	......................[SELF PORTRAIT]	58
• , [SCENERY]			58
•		[PANORAMA ASSIST]	58
•	-	...................................[SPORTS]	59
• . [NIGHT PORTRAIT]			59
• / [NIGHT SCENERY]			59
• 1 [FOOD]			60
• 2 [PARTY]			60
• 3 [CANDLE LIGHT]			60
• : [BABY1]/; [BABY2]			60
• í [PET]			61
• 9 [HIGH SENS.]			61
• ô [HI-SPEED BURST]			62
•		.........................[FLASH BURST]	62
•	5	...........................[STARRY SKY]	63
• 4 [FIREWORKS]			63
• ï [SUNSET]			64
• 6 [BEACH]			64
• 8 [SNOW]			64
• 7 [AERIAL PHOTO]			64

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