Panasonic DMC-FP8-K User Manual

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Contents

Before Use

Quick Guide ..............................................4

Standard Accessories ...............................6

Names of the Components .......................7

Preparation

Charging the Battery .................................9

• About the Battery (charging/

number of recordable pictures).........12

Inserting and Removing the Card

(optional)/the Battery...............................14

About the Built-in Memory/the Card ........16

Setting Date/Time (Clock Set).................18

• Changing the clock setting................19

Setting the Menu .....................................20

• Setting menu items ...........................21
• Using the quick menu .......................23

About the Setup Menu ............................24

Selecting the [REC] Mode.......................30

Basic

Taking pictures using the automatic

function (Intelligent Auto Mode) ..............32

• Scene detection ................................34
• AF Tracking Function........................35
• Settings in Intelligent Auto Mode ......36

Taking pictures with your favourite

settings (Normal Picture Mode)...............37

• Focusing ...........................................38
• When the subject is not in focus

(such as when it is not in the centre
of the composition of the picture
you want to take) ..............................38

• Preventing jitter (camera shake) .......39
• Direction detection function...............39

Taking Pictures with the Zoom................40

• Using the Optical Zoom/

Using the Extra Optical Zoom (EZ)/
Using the Digital Zoom .....................40

Playing back Pictures

([NORMAL PLAY]) ..................................42

• Displaying Multiple Screens

(Multi Playback) ................................43

• Using the Playback Zoom .................44
• Switching the [PLAYBACK] Mode.....44

Deleting Pictures .....................................45

• To delete a single picture..................45
• To delete multiple pictures (up to 50)

or all the pictures ..............................45

Advanced (Recording pictures)

About the LCD Monitor............................47

Taking Pictures using the Built-in Flash...49

• Switching to the appropriate

flash setting......................................49

Taking Close-up Pictures ........................54

• [AF MACRO] ....................................54
• [MACRO ZOOM] ..............................55

Taking Pictures with the Self-timer..........56

Compensating the Exposure...................57

Taking Pictures using Auto Bracket ........58

Taking pictures that match the

scene being recorded (Scene Mode) ......59

• Registering scenes in Scene Mode

(My Scene Mode)..............................59

• Selecting the Scene Mode for each

recording (Scene Mode) ...................60

Motion Picture Mode ...............................74

Taking a picture with Face Recognition

function....................................................77

• Face Settings ....................................78
• Auto Registration...............................82
• Sensitivity ..........................................83

Useful Functions at Travel

Destinations.............................................84

• Recording which Day of the

Vacation You Take the Picture .........84