Digital Camera User Manual
Table Of Contents
- Contents
- Before Use
- Preparation
- Basic
- Selecting the Recording Mode
- Tips for taking good pictures
- Taking a Still picture
- Taking Pictures using the Automatic Function (Intelligent Auto Mode)
- Taking Pictures with Defocus Control Function
- Taking Pictures with Your Favorite Settings (Program AE Mode)
- Recording Motion Pictures
- Playing Back Pictures/Motion Pictures
- Deleting Pictures
- Setting the Menu
- Setting the Quick Menu
- About the Setup Menu
- Recording
- Optical Image Stabilizer
- Taking Pictures with the Zoom
- Taking Pictures using the Built-in Flash
- Compensating the Exposure
- Taking Pictures using Burst Mode
- Taking Pictures using Auto Bracket
- Taking Pictures with the Self-timer
- Taking Pictures with Auto Focus
- Taking Pictures with Manual Focus
- Adjusting the White Balance
- Setting the Light Sensitivity
- Using the function button
- Taking Pictures by Specifying the Aperture/ Shutter Speed
- Taking Pictures that match the Scene being recorded (Scene Mode)
- Taking Pictures with different image effects (Creative Control Mode)
- Taking Pictures in Custom Mode
- Recording still pictures while recording motion pictures
- Taking a Picture with Face Recognition Function
- Entering Text
- Using the [REC] Mode Menu
- [PHOTO STYLE]
- [ASPECT RATIO]
- [PICTURE SIZE]
- [QUALITY]
- [FACE RECOG.]
- [FOCUS MODE]
- [QUICK AF]
- [METERING MODE]
- [FLASH]
- [RED-EYE REMOVAL]
- [FLASH SYNCHRO]
- [FLASH ADJUST.]
- [I.RESOLUTION]
- [I.DYNAMIC] (Intelligent dynamic range control)
- [ISO LIMIT SET]
- [ISO INCREMENTS]
- [LONG SHTR NR]
- [SHADING COMP.]
- [EX. TELE CONV.]
- [DIGITAL ZOOM]
- [BURST RATE]
- [AUTO BRACKET]
- [SELF-TIMER]
- [COLOR SPACE]
- [STABILIZER]
- Using the [MOTION PICTURE] Mode Menu
- Using the [CUSTOM] Menu
- Playback/Editing
- Connecting to other equipment
- Others

Recording
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∫ Preventing jitter (camera shake)
When the jitter alert [ ] appears, use [STABILIZER] (P132), a tripod, the self-timer
(P81) or the remote shutter (DMW-RSL1; optional)
(P184).
•
Shutter speed will be slower particularly in the following cases. Keep the camera still from the
moment the shutter button is pressed until the picture appears on the screen. We recommend
using a tripod.
– Slow Sync.
– Slow Sync./Red-Eye Reduction
– [NIGHT PORTRAIT], [NIGHT SCENERY] and [PARTY] in Scene Mode
– When you set to a slow shutter speed
Note
•
It is recommended to disable the Optical Image Stabilizer when using a tripod. [ ] is
displayed on the screen at that time.
• The stabilizer function may not be effective in the following cases.
– When there is a lot of jitter.
– When the zoom magnification is high.
– When using the Digital Zoom.
– When taking pictures while following a moving subject.
– When the shutter speed becomes slower to take pictures indoors or in dark places.
Be careful of camera jitter when you press the shutter button.
• The panning effect in [ ] is more difficult to achieve in the following cases.
– In brightly lit places such as in broad daylight on a summer’s day
– When the shutter speed is faster than 1/100th of a second.
– When you move the camera too slowly because the subject is moving slowly. (The
background will not become a blur.)
– When the camera does not keep up with the subject satisfactorily
• We recommend taking pictures with the viewfinder when panning in [ ].