Connecting to other equipment

[Windows]

The drive appears in the [My Computer] folder.

If you are connecting the camera to a PC for the first time, the required driver is installed automatically so that the camera can be recognized by “Windows Plug and Play”. The drive then appears on the [My Computer] folder.

[Macintosh]

The drive is displayed on the screen.

The drive is displayed as [LUMIX] when you connect the camera with no card inserted.

The drive is displayed as [NO_NAME] or [Untitled] when you connect the camera with a card inserted.

w About motion picture playback on a PC

Use the software “QuickTime”

(for Windows 2000/XP) in the CD-ROM (supplied) to play back motion pictures recorded on this camera on a PC.

If you use “Windows 98/98SE/Me”, download “QuickTime6.5.2 for PC“ from the following site, and install it. http://www.apple.com/support/quicktime/

This software is installed as standard on a “Macintosh OS”.

w Folder Composition

Folders are displayed as shown in the following illustration.

pSD Memory Card DCIM

pSDHC Memory Card

100_PANA

pMultiMediaCard

 

 

 

 

 

 

100_PANA

P1000001.JPG

P1000002.JPG

P1000999.JPG

101_PANA

999_PANA

MISC

PRIVATE1

Folder number File number JPG: pictures MOV: motion pictures

RAW: pictures in RAW files

The items in each folder are as follows.

[DCIM]

Folders from [100_PANA] to

 

[999_PANA]

 

 

[100_PANA]

Pictures/motion pictures

to

Pictures in RAW files

[999_PANA]

 

 

 

[MISC]

Files on which the DPOF

 

print settings are recorded

 

 

[PRIVATE1]

Pictures recorded in flip

 

animation function

 

 

The data for up to 999 pictures recorded by the camera can be included in 1 folder. If the number of pictures exceeds 999, another folder is created.

To reset the file number or the folder number, select [NO.RESET] in the [SETUP] menu. (P29)

w Conditions under which a different folder number is used

In the following cases, the picture is not recorded in the same folder as the previously recorded picture. It is recorded in a folder with a new number.

1When the folder just recorded to contains

a picture file with the number 999 in it (example: P1000999.JPG).

2When the card just recorded to contains, for example, a folder with the number 100 [100_PANA] in it and that card is removed and replaced with a card that has a folder with the number 100 in it recorded by a camera from a different maker (100XXXXX, with XXXXX being the name of the maker) and then a picture is recorded.

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