Panasonic DMC-LX2 operating instructions Contents

Contents

Before Use

Information for Your Safety . . . . . . . . . . .2 About The Mode dial . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .6

Preparation

Standard Accessories . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .9 Names of the Components . . . . . . . . . . .10 Quick Guide . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .12 Charging the Battery with the Charger . .13 About the Battery (charging/number of

recordable pictures) . . . . . . . . . . . . . .14 Inserting/Removing the Battery . . . . . . .15 Inserting/Removing the Card (Optional) . .16 About the Built-in Memory/the Card . . . .17 Attaching the Lens Cap/Strap . . . . . . . .19 Setting Date/Time (Clock Set) . . . . . . . .20

• Changing the clock setting . . . . . . . .20 Setup Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .21

Basic

Taking Pictures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .26 Taking Pictures in Auto Mode . . . . . . . .30 Taking Pictures with the Zoom . . . . . . . .32

• Using the Optical Zoom . . . . . . . . . .32

• Using the Extended Optical Zoom (EZ) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .33

• Using the Digital Zoom

Further extending the zoom . . . . . . .34 Checking the Recorded Picture

(Review) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .35 Playing Back Pictures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .36 Deleting Pictures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .37

Advanced

About the LCD Monitor . . . . . . . . . . . . . .39

• Changing the information

displayed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .39

•Brightening the LCD Monitor

(Power LCD/High angle mode) . . . .41

Taking Pictures using the

Built-in Flash . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .43 Taking Pictures with the Self-timer . . . . .47 Compensating the Exposure . . . . . . . . .48

Taking Pictures using Auto Bracket . . . 49 Optical Image Stabilizer

[STABILIZER] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50 Taking Pictures using Burst Mode . . . . 51 Taking pictures by setting the aperture/

shutter speed manually . . . . . . . . . . . 53

• Aperture-priority AE . . . . . . . . . . . . 53

• Shutter-priority AE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53 Taking pictures by setting the exposure

manually . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54

• Manual exposure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54 Taking Pictures with Manual Focus . . . 56 Taking Close-up pictures . . . . . . . . . . . 59 Setting the aspect ratio . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60 AF/AE Lock (AF: Auto focus/AE: Auto

exposure) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61 Scene mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62

– Portrait mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63

– Soft skin mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63

– Scenery mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63

– Sports mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63

– Night portrait mode . . . . . . . . . . . 64

– Night scenery mode . . . . . . . . . . 64

– Self portrait mode . . . . . . . . . . . . 64

– Food mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65

– Party mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65

– Candle light mode . . . . . . . . . . . 66

– Fireworks mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66

– Starry sky mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67

– Beach mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67

– Aerial photo mode . . . . . . . . . . . 68

– Snow mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68

– High Sensitivity mode . . . . . . . . . 68

– Baby mode 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69

– Baby mode 2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69 Recording which day of the vacation you

take the picture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70 Displaying the time at the travel

destination . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72

• Location candidates for World Time settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74

Motion picture mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75 Displaying Multiple Screens

(Multi Playback) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77 Displaying pictures by recording date

(Calendar playback) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78 Using the Playback Zoom . . . . . . . . . . . 79

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