Operating Instruction
Table Of Contents
- Finding the information you need
- How to use this manual
- Quick Start Guide
- Contents
- 1. Before Use
- 2. Getting Started/Basic Operations
- Attaching the Shoulder Strap
- Charging the Battery
- Inserting and Removing the Card (optional)/ the Battery
- Changing the Lens
- Setting Date/Time (Clock Set)
- Diopter adjustment
- Basic Operations
- Tips for taking good pictures
- Extending/retracting the lens [when the interchangeable lens (H-FS12032/H-FS35100) is attached]
- Shutter button (Taking pictures)
- Motion picture button (Recording motion pictures)
- Mode dial (Selecting a Recording Mode)
- Rear Dial
- Cursor buttons/[MENU/SET] button
- [DISP.] button (Switching the displayed information)
- [LVF] button (Switching the Monitor/Viewfinder)
- Touch screen (Touch operations)
- Taking Pictures Using the Touch Function
- Setting menu items
- Calling frequently-used menus instantly (Quick Menu)
- Assigning frequently used functions to the buttons (function buttons)
- Configuring basic settings of this unit (Setup Menu)
- Entering Text
- 3. Recording Modes
- Taking Pictures using the Automatic Function (Intelligent Auto Mode)
- Taking Pictures with Your Favourite Settings (Programme AE Mode)
- Taking Pictures by Specifying the Aperture/ Shutter Speed
- Taking panorama pictures (Panorama Shot Mode)
- Taking Pictures that match the Scene being recorded (Scene Guide Mode)
- Taking Pictures with different image effects (Creative Control Mode)
- Recording motion pictures with manually set aperture value/shutter speed (Creative Video Mode)
- Registering your preferred settings (Custom Mode)
- 4. Picture Quality and Colour Tone Settings
- 5. Focus and Brightness (Exposure) Settings
- 6. Shutter and Drive Settings
- 7. Functions Customised for Various Subjects and Purposes
- Taking Pictures Automatically at Set Intervals ([Time Lapse Shot])
- Creating Stop Motion Pictures ([Stop Motion Animation])
- Making Multiple Exposures on One Picture ([Multi Exp.])
- Disabling Operational Sounds and the Output of Light at once ([Silent Mode])
- Taking Clear Pictures by Registering Faces ([Face Recog.])
- Recording Profiles of Babies and Pets on Images
- Using screens and displays suitable for recording
- 8. Stabiliser, Zoom and Flash
- 9. Recording Motion Pictures
- 10. Playing Back and Editing Images
- 11. Using the Wi-Fi function
- Wi-Fi function
- What you can do with the Wi-Fi function
- Controlling with a Smartphone/Tablet
- Installing the smartphone/tablet app “ Image App ”
- Connecting to a smartphone/tablet
- Taking images via a smartphone/tablet (remote recording)
- Playing back images in the camera
- Saving images stored in the camera
- Sending images in the camera to an SNS
- Adding location information to images stored in the camera from a smartphone/tablet
- Combining motion pictures recorded with Snap Movie according to your preference on a smartphone/tablet
- Sending images to a smartphone/tablet by controlling the camera
- Displaying pictures on a TV
- Printing Wirelessly
- When sending images to AV device
- When sending images to PC
- Using Web services
- Registering to the “LUMIX CLUB”
- About Connections
- [Wi-Fi Setup] Menu
- 12. Connecting to other equipment
- 13. Others
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5. Focus and Brightness (Exposure) Settings
Fixing the Focus and the Exposure (AF/AE Lock)
Applicable modes:
This is useful when you want to take a picture of a subject outside the AF area or the
contrast is too strong and you cannot achieve appropriate exposure.
1
Set a function button to [AF/AE LOCK]. (P64)
• [AF/AE LOCK] can only be assigned to [Fn1] or [Fn2].
• The following step is an example in which [AF/AE LOCK] is assigned to [Fn1].
2
Align the screen with the subject.
3
Press [Fn1] to fix the focus or exposure.
• AF/AE Lock is cancelled by pressing [Fn1] button again.
• Only the exposure is locked in the default setting.
4
Move the camera as you compose the picture
and then press shutter button fully.
A AE Lock indication
• When [AE LOCK] is set, after pressing the shutter button halfway to focus, press the
shutter button fully.
Setting the functions of [AF/AE LOCK]
> [Custom] >
[AF/AE Lock]
[AE LOCK]
Only the exposure is locked.
• When the exposure is set, [AEL], the aperture value, and the shutter speed
are displayed.
[AF LOCK]
Only the focus is locked.
• When the subject is focused, [AFL], the focus indication, the aperture value,
and the shutter speed are displayed.
[AF/AE LOCK]
Both focus and exposure are locked.
• [AFL], [AEL], the focus indication, aperture value and shutter speed are
displayed when the focus and the exposure are optimised.
[AF-ON] Auto Focus is performed.
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