Preparation

 

You can control the following items on [SETUP] Menu.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Menu

 

Functions

 

 

MONITOR/

Adjust the brightness of the LCD monitor (when pictures appear

 

 

FINDER

on the LCD monitor) or Viewfinder (when pictures appear on the

 

 

 

Viewfinder) in 7 steps.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

AUTO REVIEW

[OFF]: The recorded picture does not automatically appear.

 

 

 

[1SEC.]: The recorded picture automatically appears on the

 

 

 

screen for about 1 second.

 

 

 

[3SEC.]: The recorded picture automatically appears on the

 

 

 

screen for about 3 seconds.

 

 

 

[ZOOM]: The recorded picture automatically appears on the

 

 

 

screen for about 1 second. Then it is enlarged 4 times

 

 

 

and appears for about 1 second. This mode is useful

 

 

 

for confirming focus. Pictures in burst mode, auto

 

 

 

bracket, pictures with audio are not enlarged even if

 

 

 

[ZOOM] is selected.

 

 

 

• In motion image mode [

], auto review function is not

 

 

 

activated.

 

 

 

 

• When pictures are recorded in burst mode or auto bracket, the

 

 

 

time for the auto review function is fixed to 1 second regardless

 

 

 

of the setting on the [SETUP] menu. When the quality is set to

 

 

 

[TIFF], the auto review function works until the end of recording

 

 

 

onto the card. (The picture is not enlarged.)

 

 

 

• When using pictures with audio, the auto review function works

 

 

 

while recording the audio or the data into the card regardless of

 

 

 

the setting on the auto review function. (The picture is not

 

 

 

enlarged.)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

PLAY ON LCD

When Viewfinder is selected in the recording mode while setting

 

 

 

 

 

[PLAY ON LCD] to [ON], the picture automatically appears on the

 

 

 

LCD monitor in review or playback. (P27)

 

 

 

 

 

 

POWER SAVE

The battery life is saved by turning the camera off automatically

 

 

 

while the camera is not used.

 

 

 

[1MIN.]/[2MIN.]/[5MIN.]/[10MIN.]:

 

 

 

The camera is automatically turned off if it has not been

 

 

 

used for a predetermined amount of time.

 

 

 

(Press the shutter button or turn the camera off and on to

 

 

 

cancel the power save mode.)

 

 

 

[OFF]: The camera is not automatically turned off.

 

 

 

• When using the AC adaptor (DMW-CAC1; optional)/connecting

 

 

 

to a PC or a printer/recording motion images/playing back

 

 

 

motion images/during Slide Show, the power save mode is not

 

 

 

activated.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Panasonic DMC-FZ3GN operating instructions Menu Functions, 1MIN./2MIN./5MIN./10MIN

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