Digital Camera User Manual
Table Of Contents
- TABLE OF CONTENTS
- Before Use
- Preparation
- Standard Accessories
- Names of the Components
- Quick Guide
- Charging the Battery with the Charger
- About the Battery (charging/number of recordable pictures)
- Inserting and Removing the Card (optional)/the Battery
- About the Built-in Memory/the Card (optional)
- Setting Date/Time (Clock Set)
- About the Mode Dial
- Setting the Menu
- About the Setup Menu
- LCD Monitor Display/Switching the LCD Monitor Display
- Basic
- Advanced (Recording pictures)
- About the LCD Monitor
- Taking Pictures using the Built-in Flash
- Taking Pictures with the Self-timer
- Compensating the Exposure
- Taking Pictures using Auto Bracket
- Taking Close-up Pictures
- Taking pictures that match the scene being recorded (Scene mode)
- Motion Picture Mode
- Recording which Day of the Vacation You Take the Picture
- Displaying the Time at the Travel Destination (World Time)
- Using the [REC] Mode Menu
- Taking and viewing clipboard pictures (Clipboard mode)
- Advanced (Playback)
- Connecting to other equipment
- Others
- Screen Display
- Cautions for Use
- Message Display
- Troubleshooting
- Number of Recordable Pictures and Available Recording Time
- Specifications
- Digital Camera Accessory System
- Digital Camera Accessory Order Form (For USA Customers)
- Request for Service Notice (For USA Only)
- Limited Warranty (For USA Only)
- Customer Services Directory (For USA Only)
- Précautions à prendre (pour le Canada)

Preparation
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• After charging is completed, be sure to
disconnect the power supply device from
the electrical outlet.
• The battery becomes warm after using it
and during and after charging. The
camera also becomes warm during use.
This is not a malfunction.
• The battery will be exhausted if left for a
long period of time after being charged.
Recharge the battery when it is
exhausted.
• The battery can be charged even if it is
not fully discharged.
• Use the dedicated charger and battery.
• Charge the battery with the charger
indoors.
• Do not disassemble or modify the
charger.
• Do not leave any metal items (such as
clips) near the contact areas of the
power plug. Otherwise, a fire and/or
electric shocks may be caused by
short-circuiting or the resulting heat
generated.
About the Battery
(charging/number of recordable
pictures)
∫ The battery life
The number of recordable pictures (By
CIPA standard in normal picture mode
[])
Recording conditions by CIPA standard
• Temperature: 23 °C (73.4 °F)/
Humidity: 50% when LCD monitor is on.¢
• Using a Panasonic SD Memory Card
(16 MB).
• Using the supplied battery.
• Starting recording 30 seconds after the
camera is turned on. (When the optical
image stabilizer function is set to
[MODE1].)
• Recording once every 30 seconds with
full flash every second recording.
• Rotating the zoom lever from Tele to Wide
or vice versa in every recording.
• Turning the camera off every
10 recordings and leaving it until the
temperature of the battery decreases.
¢ The number of recordable pictures
decreases in Auto Power LCD mode,
Power LCD mode and High angle
mode (P33).
• CIPA is an abbreviation of
[Camera & Imaging Products
Association].
∫ Playback time
The number of recordable pictures and
playback time will vary depending on the
operating conditions and storing condition
of the battery.
∫ Charging
Charging time and number of recordable
pictures with the optional battery pack
(DMW-BCE10PP) are the same as above.
• The [CHARGE] indicator lights when
charging starts.
∫ When the [CHARGE] indicator flashes
• The battery temperature is excessively
high or low. The charging time will be
longer than normal. Also, charging may
not be completed.
Number of
recordable
pictures
Approx. 280 pictures
(Approx.140 min)
The number of recordable pictures
varies depending on the recording
interval time.
If the recording interval time becomes
longer, the number of recordable
pictures decreases.
[e.g. When recording once every 2
minutes, the number of recordable
pictures decreases to about 70.]
Playback
time
Approx. 300 min
Charging
time
Approx. 120 min
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