Panasonic DMC-LS85 operating instructions Contents

Before Use

Contents
Before Use
Information for Your Safety	2
Quick Guide	8
Standard Accessories	9
Names of the Components	10
Preparation
About the Batteries (Number of
recordable pictures)	12
Inserting/Removing the Batteries/Card
(Optional)	14
About the Built-in Memory/the Card	15
Setting Date/Time (Clock Set)	16
About the Mode and Menu Operation ....	17
• Mode switching	17
• About the menu operation	18
• Using the quick menu	20
About the [SETUP] Menu	21
Basic
Taking Pictures Using the Automatic
Function (Intelligent Auto Mode)	25
• Scene detection	26
• About the flash	27
• Settings in intelligent auto mode	27
Taking Pictures with Your Favorite
Settings (Normal Picture Mode)	28
• Focusing	29

•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)	29
• Preventing jitter (camera shake)	30
• Direction detection function	30
Taking Pictures with the Zoom	30
• Using the optical zoom/ the
extended optical zoom (EZ)/
the digital zoom	30
Playing Back Pictures (Normal
playback mode)	32
• Displaying multiple screens
(Multi Playback)	32
• Using the playback zoom	33
Deleting Pictures	33
• To delete a single picture	33

• To delete multiple pictures
(up to 50) or all the pictures	34
Advanced-Shooting
About the LCD Monitor	35
• Display in large size	35
Taking Pictures Using the Built-in
Flash	36

•Switching to the appropriate flash

setting	36
Taking Close-up Pictures	39
Taking Pictures with the Self-timer	40
Compensating the Exposure	41
Taking Pictures that Match the Scene
being Recorded (Scene Mode)	42
• q[PORTRAIT]	43
• w[SOFT SKIN]	43
• e[SELF PORTRAIT]	43
• r[SCENERY]	44
• t[SPORTS]	44
• y[NIGHT PORTRAIT]	44
• u[NIGHT SCENERY]	44
• i[FOOD]	44
• o[PARTY]	45
• p[CANDLE LIGHT]	45
• a[BABY1] / s[BABY2]	45
• d[PET]	46
• f[SUNSET]	46
• z[HIGH SENS.]	46
• x[HIGH-SPEED BURST]	46
• c[STARRY SKY]	47
• v[FIREWORKS]	47
• b[BEACH]	48
• n[SNOW]	48
• m[AERIAL PHOTO]	48
Motion Picture Mode	49
Useful Functions at Travel Destinations..	51
• Recording which day of the
vacation you take the picture	51
• Recording date/time at overseas
travel destinations (World time)	52
Using the [REC] Menu	54
• g[PICTURE SIZE]	54
• h[QUALITY]	54
• j[SENSITIVITY]	55
• k[WHITE BALANCE]	55
• $[AF MODE]	57

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