Basic

Taking Pictures in Auto Mode

This mode allows beginners to take pictures easily. The settings for those functions which are easy to make mistakes with are fixed at the time of purchase allowing pictures to be taken with fewer mistakes.

w Auto Mode Settings

In auto mode the following items are fixed at the time of purchase to prevent mistakes being made when using the camera.

[W.BALANCE]

[AUTO]

P83

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[SENSITIVITY]

[

 

 

 

 

 

]

P85

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[AUDIO REC.]

[OFF]

P89

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[METERING MODE]

[

 

 

]

 

P89

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[AF MODE]

[

 

 

]

 

P90

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[CONT.AF]

[OFF]

P91

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[AF ASSIST LAMP]

[ON]

P91

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[PICT.ADJ.]

[STD.]

P94

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[FLIP ANIM.]

Cannot be set

P95

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[EXT.FLASH]

Automatically

P99

 

switches

 

 

between

 

 

PRESET/TTL

 

 

AUTO

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Select [AF] or [AF MACRO] with the focus switch.

AF

AF

MACRO

MF

FOCUS

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w The Backlight Compensation

Backlight refers to when light comes from the back of a subject.

In this case, the subject, such as a person, will become dark.

If you press , the compensating backlight

ON indication [ ] appears and the backlight compensation function is activated. This function compensates the backlight by brightening the whole of the picture.

3

3

BACKLIGHT

BACKLIGHT

• If you press while [ ] is displayed,

[ ] disappears and the backlight compensation function is canceled.

We recommend using the flash when you use the backlight compensation function. (When using the flash, it is fixed to Forced

ON [ ].)

The flash setting is fixed to AUTO/Red-eye

reduction [ ] when the backlight compensation function is set to [OFF].

Even if the focus switch is set to [AF], you can take pictures approaching the subject at a distance of up to 5 cm (0.16 feet) from the lens by rotating the zoom ring upmost to Wide the same as if [AF MACRO] was selected.

The settings for [ASPECT RATIO], [PICT.SIZE], [QUALITY] and [CONVERSION] in auto mode are applied to other recording modes.

You cannot use the following functions in auto mode.

– [WB ADJUST.]

– Exposure compensation

– Auto bracket

– Flash Output Adjustment

– [D.ZOOM]

– [COL.EFFECT]

– [FOCUS/AE LOCK]

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Panasonic DMC-FZ50, DMCFZ50K operating instructions Taking Pictures in Auto Mode

DMC-FZ50, DMCFZ50K specifications

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