Panasonic DMC-LX1GN - Manual (Page 6)

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Contents
Before Use
Information for Your Safety . . . . . . . . . . . 2
About These Operating Instructions . . . . 5
Preparation
Standard Accessories . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Names of the Components . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Quick Guide . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Charging the Battery with the Charger . . 12
About the Battery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Inserting/Removing the Battery . . . . . . . 14
Inserting/Removing the Card . . . . . . . . . 15
About the Card . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Approximate number of recordable
pictures and the size . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Attaching the Lens Cap/Strap . . . . . . . . 20
Setting Date/Time (Clock Set) . . . . . . . . 21
Setup Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
About the LCD Monitor . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
Recording pictures (basic)
Taking Pictures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Taking Pictures in Auto Mode . . . . . . . . 34
Checking the Recorded Picture
(Review) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
Using the Optical Zoom . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Taking Pictures using the
Built-in Flash . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
Taking Pictures with the Self-timer . . . . 43
Compensating the Exposure . . . . . . . . . 44
Taking Pictures using Auto Bracket . . . . 45
Optical Image Stabilizer
[STABILIZER] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
Taking Pictures using Burst Mode . . . . . 47
Playback (basic)
Playing Back Pictures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
9/16/25 Pictures Multi Playback . . . . . . . 49
Using the Playback Zoom . . . . . . . . . . . 50
Deleting Pictures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
Recording pictures (advanced)
Using the Mode Dial . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
• Aperture-priority AE . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
• Shutter-priority AE . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
• Manual exposure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
• Motion picture mode . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
• Scene mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
– Portrait mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
– Sports mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
– Food mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
– Scenery mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
– Night portrait mode . . . . . . . . . . 63
– Night scenery mode . . . . . . . . . . 63
– Baby mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
– Soft skin mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
– Candle light mode . . . . . . . . . . . 65
– Party mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66
– Fireworks mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66
– Snow mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
– Starry sky mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
– Self portrait mode . . . . . . . . . . . 68
Using the [REC] mode menu . . . . . . . . 69
• White Balance [W.BALANCE] . . . . 70
• ISO Sensitivity [SENSITIVITY] . . . . 72
• Picture Size [PICT.SIZE] . . . . . . . . 72
• Quality [QUALITY] . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
• Audio Recording [AUDIO REC.] . . . 74
• Metering Mode
[METERING MODE] . . . . . . . . . . . . 74
• AF Mode [AF MODE] . . . . . . . . . . . 75
• Continuous AF [CONT.AF] . . . . . . . 76
• AF Assist Lamp
[AF ASSIST LAMP] . . . . . . . . . . . . 76
• Digital Zoom [D.ZOOM] . . . . . . . . . 77
• Colour Effect [COL.EFFECT] . . . . . 77
• Picture Adjustment [PICT.ADJ.] . . . 78
• Flip Animation [FLIP ANIM.] . . . . . . 78
Using the Quick setting . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81
Taking Pictures with Manual Focus . . . 82
AF/AE Lock (AF: Auto focus/AE: Auto
exposure) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84
AF Macro mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85
Setting the aspect ratio . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86