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Contents
Before use
Before use .............................................. 5
About GPS ....................................................7
Standard Accessories ........................... 8
Names of parts....................................... 9
Preparations
Charging battery .................................. 10
Guidelines for number of recordable
pictures and operating time ......................... 11
Inserting and removing the card
(optional)/the battery ........................... 12
Using the AC adaptor (optional) and DC
coupler (optional) instead of the battery ......13
Picture save destination
(cards and built-in memory) ........................14
Remaining battery and memory capacity ....15
Recording capacity guidelines
(pictures/recording time) .............................15
How to operate the camera................. 16
Touch operations .........................................17
Setting the clock .................................. 18
To change time setting ................................19
Basics
Sequence of operations ...................... 20
Taking pictures with your own settings
[Program AE] Mode ............................. 22
How to adjust focus ............................ 23
Touching the screen and recording
(Touch Shutter function) ..................... 24
Touching the screen and adjusting the
focus and exposure
(Touch AF/AE function) ....................... 25
Taking pictures with automatic settings
[Intelligent Auto] Mode ........................ 26
Automatic Scene Detection .........................26
About flash ..................................................27
About Happy colours ...................................27
[Motion Deblur] ............................................27
[iHandheld Nite Shot] ..................................27
AF Tracking .................................................28
[Intelligent Auto] Mode restrictions ..............29
Taking motion pictures ....................... 30
Viewing your pictures
[Normal Play] ....................................... 32
Viewing motion pictures ..............................33
Zooming in and viewing “Playback Zoom”
... 34
Viewing a list of pictures “Multi Playback” ...34
Viewing pictures by their recording date
“Calendar Playback” ....................................35
Deleting pictures ................................. 36
To delete multiple (up to 100)/
To delete all pictures ...................................37
Setting the menu ................................. 38
Menu type ...................................................40
Using Quick menu .......................................41
Using the [Setup] menu ...................... 42
[Clock Set] ...................................................42
[Auto Clock Set] ..........................................42
[World Time] ................................................42
[Travel Date] ................................................42
[Beep] .......................................................... 42
[Volume] ......................................................43
[Cust.Set Mem.] ..........................................43
[LCD Mode] .................................................43
[Guide Line] .................................................43
[Histogram] .................................................. 44
[Rec Area] ...................................................44
[Zoom Resume] ...........................................44
[Economy] ...................................................45
[Auto Review] ..............................................45
[No.Reset] ...................................................46
[Reset] ......................................................... 46
[USB Mode] .................................................46
[Output] .......................................................47
[VIERA Link] ................................................47
[3D Playback] ..............................................47
[Rotate Disp.] ..............................................48
[Version Disp.] .............................................48
[Format] ....................................................... 48
[Calibration] .................................................49
[Language] ..................................................49
[Demo Mode] ...............................................49
Application (Record)
Taking pictures with zoom .................. 50
Using the zoom by performing touch
operations ...................................................50
Zoom types and use ....................................51
Taking pictures with flash ................... 52
Taking close-up pictures .................... 54
[Macro Zoom] ..............................................54
Focus range ................................................55
Taking pictures with self-timer ........... 56
Taking pictures with Exposure
Compensation ...................................... 57
Recording while exposure is changed
automatically ([Auto Bracket]) .....................57
Determine aperture and shutter speed
and record ........................................... 58
[Aperture-Priority] Mode ..............................58
[Shutter-Priority] Mode ................................58
[Manual Exposure] Mode ............................59
Register your own settings and record
[Custom] Mode .................................... 60
[Cust.Set Mem.] ..........................................60
[Custom] ...................................................... 60
Taking pictures according to the scene
[Scene Mode] ....................................... 61
[My Scene Mode] ........................................62
[Portrait] .......................................................62
[Soft Skin] ....................................................62
[Transform] ..................................................62
[Self Portrait] ...............................................63
[Scenery] .....................................................63
[Panorama Assist] .......................................63
[Sports] ........................................................ 64
[Night Portrait] .............................................64
[Night Scenery] ............................................64
[Handheld Night Shot] .................................64
[Food] ..........................................................64
[Party] .......................................................... 65
[Candle Light] ..............................................65
[Baby] ..........................................................65
[Pet] ............................................................. 65
[Sunset] .......................................................66
[High Sens.] .................................................66
[Flash Burst] ................................................66
[Starry Sky] ..................................................66
[Fireworks] ...................................................67
[Beach] ........................................................67
[Snow] .........................................................67
[Aerial Photo] ...............................................67
[Pin Hole] .....................................................67
[Film Grain] ..................................................67
[High Dynamic] ............................................67
[Photo Frame] .............................................68
[Underwater] ................................................68
[High Speed Movie] .....................................68
Taking 3D pictures
[3D Photo Mode] .................................. 69
Burst function ...................................... 70
Recording with the Face Recognition
function [Face Recog.] ........................ 72
Registering face pictures ............................73
Editing or deleting information about
registered persons .....................................74
Recording the place of recording
with GPS ............................................... 75
Using GPS ..................................................76
Executing positioning immediately and
updating your current location .....................78
Changing the recorded place name
information ..................................................79
Registering your current location as a
landmark .....................................................80
Changing the display of location name
information ..................................................81
Using GPS to set the clock ........................81
Useful features for travel .................... 82
[Travel Date] ................................................82
[World Time] ...............................................83
Entering Text ........................................ 84