Panasonic DMC-F2 - Manual (Page 5)

Before Use
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Contents
Before Use
Information for Your Safety ........................ 3
Quick Guide .............................................. 7
Standard Accessories............................... 8
Names of the Components ....................... 9
Preparation
Charging the Battery .............................. 11
About the Battery (charging/
number of recordable pictures) ........ 12
Inserting/Removing the Battery/Card
(Optional) ............................................ 14
About the Built-in Memory/the Card ....... 16
Setting Date/Time (Clock Set) ................ 18
About the Mode and Menu Operation .... 20
Mode switching ................................ 20
About the menu operation ................ 21
Using the quick menu ....................... 24
About the [SETUP] Menu ....................... 25
Basic
Taking Pictures Using the Automatic
Function (Auto Scene Mode) .............. 28
Scene detection ............................... 30
About the flash ................................. 31
Settings in AUTO Scene mode......... 31
Taking Pictures with Your Favorite
Settings (Normal Picture Mode) ......... 32
Focusing ........................................... 33
When the subject is not in focus
(such as when it is not in the
center of the composition of the
picture you want to take) .................. 33
Preventing jitter (camera shake)....... 34
Taking Pictures with the Zoom ................ 35
Using the optical zoom/
the extended optical zoom (EZ)/
the digital zoom ................................ 35
Playing Back Pictures
(Normal Playback Mode) .................... 37
Displaying multiple screens
(Multi Playback) ................................ 38
Using the playback zoom ................. 39
Deleting Pictures .................................... 40
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To delete a single picture ................. 40
To delete multiple pictures
(up to 50) or all the pictures ............. 41
Advanced-Shooting
About the LCD Monitor ........................... 42
Display in large size ......................... 43
Taking Pictures Using the
Built-in Flash ....................................... 44
Switching to the appropriate flash
setting ............................................... 44
Taking Close-up Pictures ........................ 49
Taking Pictures with the Self-timer ......... 50
Compensating the Exposure .................. 51
Taking Pictures that Match the
Scene being Recorded
(Scene Mode) ..................................... 52
q [PORTRAIT] .............................. 53
w [SOFT SKIN] ............................. 53
e [SELF PORTRAIT] .................... 53
r [SCENERY] ............................... 54
t [SPORTS] .................................. 54
y [NIGHT PORTRAIT] .................. 54
u [NIGHT SCENERY] ................... 55
i [FOOD] ..................................... 55
o [PARTY] ..................................... 56
p [CANDLE LIGHT] ...................... 56
a [BABY1] / s [BABY2] ............. 57
d [PET] ......................................... 58
f [SUNSET] .................................. 58
z [HIGH SENS.] ............................ 58
x [HI-SPEED BURST] .................. 59
g [FLASH BURST] ........................ 59
c [STARRY SKY] .......................... 60
v [FIREWORKS] ........................... 60
b [BEACH] .................................... 61
n [SNOW] ..................................... 61
m [AERIAL PHOTO] ..................... 61
Motion Picture Mode ............................... 62
Useful Functions at Travel
Destinations ........................................ 65
Recording which day of the
vacation you take the picture ............ 65
Recording date/time at overseas
travel destinations (World time) ........ 68
Using the [REC] Menu ............................ 70
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