Operating Instructions
Table Of Contents
- Contents
- Before use
- Preparations
- Basics
- Sequence of operations
- Taking pictures with your own settings [Program AE] Mode
- Adjusting focus
- Taking pictures with automatic settings [Intelligent Auto] Mode
- Recording motion pictures
- Viewing your pictures
- Deleting pictures
- Setting the menu
- Using the [Setup] menu
- [Clock Set]
- [World Time]
- [Travel Date]
- [Beep]
- [Speaker Volume]
- [Cust.Set Mem.]
- [Monitor Display]
- [Monitor Luminance]
- [Guide Line]
- [Histogram]
- [Video Rec Area]
- [Zoom Resume]
- [Economy]
- [Auto Review]
- [No.Reset]
- [Reset]
- [USB Mode]
- [Output]
- [VIERA Link]
- [3D Playback]
- [Rotate Disp.]
- [Version Disp.]
- [Format]
- [Language]
- [Stabilizer Demo.]
- Application (Record)
- Changing recording information display
- Using Zoom
- Taking pictures with flash
- Taking close-up pictures
- Taking pictures with self-timer
- Taking pictures with Exposure Compensation
- Determining aperture and shutter speed and recording
- Taking Pictures with different picture effects [Creative Control] mode
- Recording panorama pictures [Panorama Shot] Mode
- Taking pictures according to the scene [Scene Mode]
- Registering your own settings and recording [Custom] Mode
- Burst function
- Recording with the Face Recognition function [Face Recog.]
- Useful features for travel
- Entering Text
- Using the [Rec] menu
- Using the [Motion Picture] menu
- Application (View)
- Connecting with other devices
- Others
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Application (Record)
Using the [Rec] menu
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Focus is fixed to (1-area-focusing) in the following cases:
• Scene Mode ([Starry Sky])
• [Creative Control] Mode ([Miniature Effect])
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Use (1-area-focusing) if focus is difficult to align with (Spot-focusing).
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Cannot set to (Face Detection) in the following cases:
• Scene Modes ([Night Scenery] [Handheld Night Shot] [Food] [Underwater])
• [Creative Control] Mode ([Soft Focus])
• [Panorama Shot] Mode
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If the camera misinterprets a non-human subject as a face in (Face Detection)
setting, switch to another setting.
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If conditions prevent the face from being recognised, such as when the movement of
the subject is too rapid, the [AF Mode] setting switches to (23-area-focusing).
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Under certain recording conditions, such as when the subject is small or dark, AF
Tracking may not operate correctly.
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When AF Tracking does not work, focus will be on (1-area-focusing).
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Cannot set to in the following cases.
• [Creative Control] Mode ([Sepia] [Dynamic Monochrome] [High Dynamic]
[Toy Effect] [Soft Focus])
• [Panorama Shot] Mode
• [B&W] and [SEPIA] in [Color Mode]
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While recording motion pictures and the setting is other than (Face Detection),
focus will be on (1-area-focusing).
• For the setting procedures of the menu. (→42)
[Quick AF]
The focus is automatically adjusted when camera blurring is small even when
the shutter button is not pressed. (Increases battery consumption)
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Settings: [ON] / [OFF]
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Focus alignment may take time if zoom is suddenly changed from max. W to max. T,
or if suddenly moving closer to subject.
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Press shutter button halfway if focus is difficult to align.
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The function will turn [OFF] in the following cases.
• Scene Modes ([Night Portrait] [Night Scenery] [Handheld Night Shot] [Starry Sky])
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[Quick AF] will not work while AF Tracking is operating.










