Panasonic DMC-FZ50 - Manual (Page 36)

Basic
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Taking Pictures in
Auto Mode
This mode allows beginners to take pictures
easily. The settings for those functions which
are easy to make mistakes with are fixed at
the time of purchase allowing pictures to be
taken with fewer mistakes.
w Auto Mode Settings
In auto mode the following items are fixed
at the time of purchase to prevent mistakes
being made when using the camera.
• Select [AF] or [AF MACRO] with the focus
switch.
w The Backlight Compensation
Backlight refers to when light comes from
the back of a subject.
In this case, the subject, such as a person,
will become dark.
If you press
, the compensating backlight
ON indication appears and the
backlight compensation function is
activated. This function compensates the
backlight by brightening the whole of the
picture.
• If you press  while [ ] is displayed,
[ ] disappears and the backlight
compensation function is canceled.
• We recommend using the flash when you
use the backlight compensation function.
(When using the flash, it is fixed to Forced
ON [
].)
• The flash setting is fixed to AUTO/Red-eye
reduction [ ] when the backlight
compensation function is set to [OFF].
• Even if the focus switch is set to [AF], you
can take pictures approaching the subject
at a distance of up to 5 cm (0.16 feet) from
the lens by rotating the zoom ring upmost
to Wide the same as if [AF MACRO] was
selected.
• The settings for [ASPECT RATIO],
[PICT.SIZE], [QUALITY] and
[CONVERSION] in auto mode are
applied to other recording modes.
• You cannot use the following functions in
auto mode.
– [WB ADJUST.]
– Exposure compensation
– Auto bracket
– Flash Output Adjustment
– [D.ZOOM]
– [COL.EFFECT]
– [FOCUS/AE LOCK]
[W.BALANCE] [AUTO] P83
[SENSITIVITY] [ ] P85
[AUDIO REC.] [OFF] P89
[METERING MODE] [ ] P89
[AF MODE] [ ] P90
[CONT.AF] [OFF] P91
[AF ASSIST LAMP] [ON] P91
[PICT.ADJ.] [STD.] P94
[FLIP ANIM.] Cannot be set P95
[EXT.FLASH] Automatically
switches
between
PRESET/TTL
AUTO P99
AF
FOCUS
MF
AF
MACRO
3 3
BACKLIGHT BACKLIGHT