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
Compensating the Exposure
Applicable modes:
Use this function when you cannot achieve appropriate exposure due to the difference in
brightness between the subject and the background.
•
The Exposure Compensation value can be set within a range of j5 EV to i5EV.
When recording motion pictures, the Exposure Compensation value can be set within a
range of j3 EV to i3EV.
• Select [0] to return to the original exposure.
• Rotate the rear dial to display the Exposure Meter. (P86)
• When [Auto Exposure Comp.] in [Flash] in the [Rec] menu is set to [ON], the brightness of the
flash will automatically be set to the level appropriate to the selected Exposure Compensation.
(P210)
• When the exposure value is out of the j3EV to i3 EV range, the brightness of the recording
screen will no longer change.
It is recommended to record by checking the actual brightness of the recorded image in the
Auto Review or playback screen.
• The set Exposure Compensation value is stored even if the camera is turned off. (When
[Exposure Comp. Reset] (P72) is set to [OFF])
1
Press the rear dial to switch to Exposure
Compensation operation.
• Exposure Compensation value turns yellow, indicating
that the exposure can now be compensated.
2
Rotate the rear dial to compensate the
exposure.
A Exposure Compensation value.
B Exposure meter
Underexposed Properly exposed Overexposed
Compensate the exposure
towards positive.
Compensate the exposure
towards negative.
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