User Manual
Table Of Contents
- Finding the information you need
- How to use this manual
- Contents
- Contents by Function
- Before Use
- Preparations
- Basics
- Recording mode
- Taking pictures with automatic settings (Intelligent Auto Mode)
- Taking Pictures of Yourself [Self Shot]
- Taking pictures after automatically setting the aperture value and shutter speed (Programme AE Mode)
- Taking pictures by setting the aperture value and shutter speed
- Taking pictures by setting the aperture value (Aperture-Priority AE Mode)
- Taking pictures by setting the shutter speed (Shutter-Priority AE Mode)
- Taking pictures by setting the aperture value and shutter speed (Manual Exposure Mode)
- Checking the effects of the aperture value and shutter speed (Preview Mode)
- Easily set aperture / shutter speed for suitable exposure (One Push AE)
- Recording panorama pictures (Panorama Shot Mode)
- Taking pictures according to the scene (Scene Guide Mode)
- Taking Pictures with different picture effects (Creative Control Mode)
- Recording motion pictures by setting the aperture value/shutter speed (Creative Video Mode)
- Registering your own settings and recording (Custom Mode)
- Focus, Brightness (Exposure) and Colour tone Settings
- 4K Photo and Drive Settings
- Recording 4K Photos
- Selecting pictures from 4K burst file and saving
- Adjusting the focus after recording ([Post Focus]/[Focus Stacking])
- Selecting a Drive Mode
- Taking Pictures While Adjusting a Setting Automatically (Bracket Recording)
- Taking pictures automatically at set intervals [Time Lapse Shot]
- Creating stop motion animation [Stop Motion Animation]
- Stabiliser, Zoom and Flash
- Recording motion pictures
- Playing Back and Editing Pictures
- Using Menu Functions
- Wi-Fi
- What you can do with the Wi-Fi® function
- Wi-Fi Function
- Operating the camera by connecting it to a smartphone
- Installing the smartphone/tablet app “Panasonic Image App”
- Connecting to a smartphone
- Taking pictures via a smartphone (remote recording)
- Playing back pictures in the camera on a smartphone
- Saving pictures in the camera to a smartphone
- Sending pictures in the camera to social networking services
- Adding location information to pictures in the camera from a smartphone
- Combining motion pictures recorded with Snap Movie according to your preference on a smartphone
- Displaying still pictures on a TV
- Sending pictures
- Sending pictures to a smartphone
- Wireless printing
- Sending pictures to AV device
- Sending pictures to a PC
- Using WEB services
- Using “LUMIX CLUB”
- About connections
- [Wi-Fi Setup]
- Connecting with other devices
- Others

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Focus, Brightness (Exposure) and Colour tone Settings
Taking pictures with Auto Focus
Optimising the focus and brightness for a touched position
Recording mode:
You can optimise the focus and brightness for the position you have touched.
→ [Custom] → [Touch Settings] → [Touch AF] → [AF+AE]
1
Touch the subject you want to optimise the brightness
for
• The AF area setting screen appears. (→95)
• The brightness optimisation position is displayed on the centre of
the AF area. The position follows the movement of the AF area.
• [Metering Mode] is set to [
], which is used exclusively for the
[Touch AE].
• Touching [Reset] returns the brightness optimisation position and
the AF area to the centre.
SetSet
Reset
Reset
2
Touch [Set]
• The AF area with the same function as [ ] is displayed on the touched position.
• If you touch [
] (touch [ ] when [ ] is set), the setting of [AF+AE] is cancelled.
When the background has become too bright, etc., the
brightness contrast with the background can be adjusted by
compensating the exposure.
●
When recording with the Touch Shutter, the focus and brightness are optimised for the touched
position before recording takes place.
●
At the edge of the screen, the metering may be affected by the brightness around the touched
location.
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The [AF+AE] does not function in the following cases:
• When using the Digital Zoom
• When the AF area has been set by using the cursor button
• When [4K Live Cropping] is set