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Table of Contents
Before Use
Care of the camera ...................................5
Scope of Delivery ......................................6
Accessories...............................................6
Names of the Components .......................7
Preparation
Attaching the Lens Cap/
the Shoulder Strap ..................................12
Attaching the Lens Hood.........................14
Charging the Battery ...............................15
• Charging ...........................................15
• Operating time and number of
recordable pictures ...........................17
Inserting and Removing Card and
Battery.....................................................19
About the Internal Memory/the Card .......20
• Number of recordable pictures and
available recording time....................22
Setting Date/Time (Clock Set).................23
• Changing the clock setting................24
Basic
Selecting the Recording Mode ................25
Tips for taking good pictures ...................27
• Preventing camera shake .................27
Program Mode ........................................28
• Program Shift ....................................29
Focusing..................................................30
Snapshot Mode .......................................32
Recording Motion Pictures ......................35
• Recording still pictures while
recording motion pictures .................38
Playing Back Pictures
([NORMAL PLAY]) ..................................39
• Selecting a picture ............................40
• Displaying Multiple Images
(Multi Playback) ................................40
• Using the Playback Zoom .................41
Playing Back Motion Pictures..................42
• Creating Still Pictures from
a Motion Picture ................................43
Deleting Pictures .....................................44
• To delete a single picture ..................44
• To delete multiple pictures
(up to 100) or all the pictures ............45
Setting the Menu .....................................46
• Setting menu items ...........................48
• Using the Quick Menu.......................49
About the Setup Menu.............................50
Recording
About the Monitor/the Viewfinder ............62
Using the Zoom .......................................64
• Using the Optical Zoom/
Using the Extended Optical Zoom (EZ)/
Using the Intelligent Zoom/
Using the Digital Zoom......................64
Using the Built-In Flash ...........................67
• Switching flash modes ......................67
• Flash exposure compensation ..........71
Close-up Pictures ....................................72
Manual Focusing .....................................73
Using the Self-Timer................................75
Exposure Compensation .........................76
Using Auto Bracketing.............................77
Continuous Mode ....................................78
Setting the Sensitivity ..............................80
Aperture- and Shutter-Priority Modes......82
• Aperture-Priority Mode ......................82
• Shutter-Priority Mode ........................82
Manual Exposure Mode ..........................83
Taking Pictures with different image
effects (Creative Control Mode) ..............84
Taking Expressive Portraits and
Landscape Pictures
(Advanced Scene Mode).........................86
• [PORTRAIT] ......................................86
• [SCENERY] .......................................87
• [SPORTS] .........................................87
• [CLOSE-UP]......................................87
• [NIGHT PORTRAIT] ..........................88
Summary of Contents for V-Lux 3
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