User manual PANASONIC DMC-G3

[. . . ] Operating Instructions for advanced features Digital Camera Model No. DMC-G3 Before use, please read these instructions completely. VQT3N60 Contents Before Use Care of the camera . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Standard Accessories . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Names and Functions of Components. . . . . . 7 About the Lens . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 Preparation Attaching/Detaching the Lens . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 Attaching the Shoulder Strap . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 Charging the Battery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 Charging . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 Approximate operating time and number of recordable pictures . . . . . . . . . . 21 Inserting and Removing the Card (optional)/the Battery. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 About the Card . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 About cards that can be used with this unit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 Approximate number of recordable pictures and available recording time . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 Setting Date/Time (Clock Set). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 Taking Pictures with Defocus Control Function. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42 Taking Pictures with Your Favourite Settings (Programme AE Mode) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43 Recording Motion Pictures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45 How to set focus when recording a motion picture (Continuous AF) . . . . . 45 Recording Motion Pictures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46 Playing Back Pictures/Motion Pictures . . . . . . . 48 Playing Back Pictures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48 Changing the information displayed on the playback screen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51 Playing Back Motion Pictures. . . . . . . . . . . . 52 Deleting Pictures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54 Setting the Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56 Setting menu items . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56 Setting the Quick Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59 About the Setup Menu. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61 Recording Optical Image Stabilizer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69 Taking Pictures with the Zoom . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71 Taking Pictures using the Built-in Flash. . . . . . 72 Switching to the appropriate flash setting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72 Compensating the Exposure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76 Taking Pictures using Burst Mode. . . . . . . . . . . 77 Taking Pictures using Auto Bracket . . . . . . . . 79 Taking Pictures with the Self-timer. . . . . . . . . . 81 Taking Pictures with Auto Focus . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83 Taking Pictures with Manual Focus. . . . . . . . . 89 Adjusting the White Balance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92 Setting the Light Sensitivity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97 Using the function button. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99 Fixing the Focus and the Exposure (AF/AE Lock). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100 Confirm the Effects of Aperture and Shutter Speed (Preview Mode). . . . . . . 101 Taking Pictures by Specifying the Aperture/Shutter Speed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102 Aperture-priority AE. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102 Shutter-priority AE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102 Manual Exposure Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103 Basic Selecting the Recording Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 Tips for taking good pictures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 Taking a Still picture. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33 How to set focus when taking a still picture (AFS/AFC) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33 Taking a Still picture. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 Taking pictures using the Touch Shutter function. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36 Switching the Information Displayed on the recording screen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37 Taking Pictures using the Automatic Function (Intelligent Auto Mode) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38 Recording using Intelligent Auto Plus Mode. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41 -2- Taking Pictures that match the Scene being recorded (Scene Mode). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105 [PORTRAIT] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105 [SOFT SKIN] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106 [SCENERY]. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106 [ARCHITECTURE] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106 [SPORTS] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106 [PERIPHERAL DEFOCUS]. . . . . . . . . . . . . 107 [FLOWER]. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107 [FOOD]. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108 [OBJECTS] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108 [NIGHT PORTRAIT]. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108 [NIGHT SCENERY] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109 [ILLUMINATIONS] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109 [BABY1]/[BABY2] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110 [PET] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111 [PARTY] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111 [SUNSET] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111 Taking Pictures with different image effects (Creative Control Mode) . . . . . . . . . . . . 112 Taking Pictures in Custom Mode . . . . . . . . . . 113 Recording still pictures while recording motion pictures. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115 Taking a Picture with Face Recognition Function . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116 Entering Text. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122 Using the [REC] Mode Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123 [PHOTO STYLE] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123 [ASPECT RATIO]. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124 [PICTURE SIZE] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125 [QUALITY]. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126 [FACE RECOG. ] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126 [FOCUS MODE]. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126 [QUICK AF] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127 [METERING MODE] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127 [FLASH] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128 [RED-EYE REMOVAL] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128 [FLASH SYNCHRO] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128 [FLASH ADJUST. ] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129 [I. RESOLUTION]. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129 [I. DYNAMIC] (Intelligent dynamic range control) . . . . 129 [ISO LIMIT SET]. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130 [ISO INCREMENTS] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130 [LONG SHTR NR] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130 [SHADING COMP. ] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131 [EX. TELE CONV. ] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131 [DIGITAL ZOOM] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131 [BURST RATE] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131 [AUTO BRACKET] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131 [SELF-TIMER] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132 [COLOR SPACE] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132 [STABILIZER]. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132 Using the [MOTION PICTURE] Mode Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133 [REC MODE] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133 [REC QUALITY] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134 [PICTURE MODE]. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135 [CONTINUOUS AF] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135 [EX. TELE CONV. ] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135 [WIND CUT] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135 [MIC LEVEL DISP. ] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135 [MIC LEVEL ADJ. ]. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135 [FLICKER RED. ] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136 Using the [CUSTOM] Menu. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137 Playback/Editing Playing Back and Editing Burst Pictures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144 Creating Still Pictures from a Motion Picture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147 Using the [PLAYBACK] Mode Menu . . . . . 148 [2D/3D SETTINGS] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148 [SLIDE SHOW]. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148 [PLAYBACK MODE] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150 [TITLE EDIT] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151 [TEXT STAMP]. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152 [VIDEO DIVIDE] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154 [RESIZE] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155 [CROPPING] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 156 [ASPECT CONV. ] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157 [ROTATE]/[ROTATE DISP. ]. . . . . . . . . . . . 158 [FAVORITE] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159 [PRINT SET] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 160 [PROTECT] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 162 [FACE REC EDIT] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163 -3- Connecting to other equipment Enjoying 3D pictures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164 Playing Back Pictures on a TV Screen. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 168 Saving the Recorded Still Pictures and Motion Pictures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 172 Copy by inserting the SD card into the recorder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 172 Copy the playback image using an AV cable . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173 Copying to a PC using "PHOTOfunSTUDIO" . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 174 Connecting to a PC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175 Printing the Pictures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 178 Others Optional accessories. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 182 LCD Monitor Display/Viewfinder Display . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185 Cautions for Use . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 188 Message Display. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195 Troubleshooting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197 -4- Before Use Before Use Care of the camera Do not subject to strong vibration, shock, or pressure. The lens, LCD monitor, or external case may be damaged if used in following conditions. [. . . ] Selection screen is displayed again when [NO] is selected, and when [YES] is selected with 3, [AUTO REGISTRATION] will be set to [OFF]. 2 Press 3/4 to select [NEW PERSON] or [ADDITIONAL IMAGE] and then press [MENU/SET]. Item [NEW PERSON] Description of settings A list of registered people is displayed when there are 6 people already registered. Select the person to be replaced. To additionally register a face image for a registered person. Press 3/4/2/1 to select the person to whom you wish add the picture, and then press [MENU/SET]. [ADDITIONAL IMAGE] If 3 images have already been registered, the picture replacement screen will appear. In this case, select the picture you wish to replace. After additionally registering or changing a face image, the screen returns automatically to the recording screen. 3 Perform the operation in Step 5 and following in "Registering face image of new person". Note If the registration screen will not display, it may display easier by recording in the same If the registration screen is displayed for a person that is already registered, it will make the It may make recognition harder when a picture recorded with flash is registered. recognition easier by additionally registering. conditions or with the same expressions. - 121 - Recording Entering Text It is possible to enter babies' and pets' names and the names of travel destinations when recording. (Only alphabetical characters and symbols can be entered. ) Display the entry screen. You can display the entry screen via the following operations. [NAME] of [BABY1]/[BABY2] or [PET] in Scene Mode (P110) [NAME] in [FACE RECOG. ] (P119) [LOCATION] in [TRAVEL DATE] (P63) [TITLE EDIT] (P151) Press 3/4/2/1 to select text and then press [MENU/SET] to register. The following operations can be performed by selecting the item and pressing [MENU/SET]: [_]: Enter a blank [ ]: Text between [A] (capitals), [a] (small case), [1] (numbers) and [&] (special characters). [DELETE]: Delete a character [ ]: Move the entry position cursor to the left [ ]: Move the entry position cursor to the right The entry position cursor can be moved left and right with the rear dial. To enter the same character again, rotate the rear dial right to move the cursor. (Maximum of 9 characters when setting names in [FACE RECOG. ]) Press 3/4/2/1 to move the cursor to [SET] and then press [MENU/SET] to end text input. Note Text can be scrolled if all of the entered text does not fit on the screen. - 122 - Recording Using the [REC] Mode Menu For details on [REC] Mode menu settings, refer to P56. [PHOTO STYLE], [FOCUS MODE], [METERING MODE], [I. DYNAMIC] and [DIGITAL ZOOM] are common to both the [REC] Mode menu and [MOTION PICTURE] Mode menu. Changing these settings in one of these menus is reflected in other menu. [PHOTO STYLE] Sets the colour and picture quality to match the subject. Applicable modes: [STANDARD] [VIVID] 1 This is the standard setting. Use the setting registered in advance. [NATURAL]1 [MONOCHROME] [SCENERY]1, 2 [PORTRAIT]1, 2 [CUSTOM]1 1 This is disabled when Intelligent Auto Mode or Scene Mode is selected. 2 Colour and picture quality are approximately the same as the [SCENERY] and [PORTRAIT] in Scene Modes, but picture quality can be adjusted as desired with [PHOTO STYLE]. - 123 - Recording Adjusting the picture quality 1 Press 2/1 to select the type of Photo Style. 2 Press 3/4 to select the items, and then press 2/1 to adjust. Item [CONTRAST] Effect Increases the difference between the brightness and the [r] darkness in the picture. [s] S [SHARPNESS] Decreases the difference between the brightness and the darkness in the picture. [r] The picture is sharply defined. You can obtain pictures with higher resolution. [SATURATION] [NOISE REDUCTION] Registered settings are memorised even if the camera is turned off. If you adjust the picture quality, [_] is displayed beside the Photo Style icon on the Selecting [MONOCHROME] will change the colour tone through [SATURATION]. Picture quality cannot be adjusted in the Intelligent Auto Mode and the Scene Mode. [. . . ] (P66, 178) The ends of the pictures are cut at printing. > When using a printer with a Cropping or borderless printing function, cancel this function before printing. (For details, refer to the operating instructions for the printer. ) > When you order photo studios to print pictures, ask the photo studio if the pictures can be printed with both ends. - 205 - Others Others The camera makes a noise when turned [ON]. This is the noise of the Dust Reduction Function working (P189); it is not a malfunction. It is a sound of lens movement or aperture operation when the power is turned [ON] or [OFF], You may hear a sound from the lens and image in the LCD monitor may suddenly change when the brightness has changed by zoom operation or moving the camera, but there is no effect on recording. [. . . ]