Panasonic Lumix DMC-FZ300 Bedienungsanleitung

Jargon Free Setup & Use

Easy to follow set up and use of the Panasonic

Lumix Fz300/330 in conjunction with my

YouTube video series

written by Graham Houghton September 2017 !

Beginners Guide to the FZ300/330

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Welcome to this supplementary guide for the FZ300/330

camera from Panasonic.

This guide, plus the YouTube video series, will allow you to

get the best image quality from your camera in a way that is

easy to comprehend without any technical jargon or any

pre-requisite understanding of this model.

To enable you to follow this guide and the YouTube videos it

would be a great idea to reset the camera to the default

factory set up so that all the items discussed in the video and

this booklet will work without any problems due to the

complex and inter reactive meaning system of the camera.

To do so, turn on your camera then press Menu/Set and

choose the wrench icon (Setup) and go to page 4 - use Zoom

tele to change pages quickly and select Reset and then

Menu/Set again.

Select YES to each of the three prompts which will appear.

Beginners Guide to the FZ300/330

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The Panasonic FZ300/330 Main Features!

Beginners Guide to the FZ300/330

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Once the camera has been reset select your home country

and/or time and date if necessary.

As this camera has so many ways of setting up user

preferences I would make the following changes to the setup

of the camera so that any of the following instructions that I

give will always work for you.

We will be first looking at the iA mode (intelligent Auto)

which is the fully automatic mode where the camera will

make all the adjustments for you to get the best exposure

and image.

The camera defaults to the new mode of iA+ which offers a

lot more user options and is one that I recommend that you

stay with as this will allow you to become more comfortable

with some of the adjustments we will be making in later

modes.

Beginners Guide to the FZ300/330

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Turn the TOP MODE dial to the iA

position opposite the white marker.

If you press Menu/Set and you then use

the left hand navigation button. you

can see the iA+ is selected from the iA

menu as it is highlighted with the

yellow background.

Now we will set up some of the other menu items;

Beginners Guide to the FZ300/330

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The ASPECT ratio is set from the REC Setup menu (the

camera icon tab). This sets the height and width ratio of

your image.

If you are shooting images primarily for prints then for 4 x 6

inch prints (and its multiples 8 x 12 etc) then select 3:2

For other sizes 4:3 may be selected bearing in mind some

common print sizes like 5 x 7 inch will require some

cropping of the final image.

If you intend to use the images for HD video or display

without borders on your HD aspect TV select the 16:9 option

from this menu.

Each of these aspect ratios will display the actual image area

that you have selected on the LCD display or electronic

viewfinder (EVF).

Beginners Guide to the FZ300/330

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Always keep the largest Picture size (L) and the Quality

should be left to the fine JPEG mode which is the double

dotted bar until later setups when we will consider the other

format available to you.

Picture size (in Megapixels) will vary with each aspect ratio

selected so you may see different values.

Here I have set the HD format aspect ratio of 16:9 which

give 9Megapixel images.

Selecting the 4:3 aspect ratio will give the full 12Megapixel

size.

To aid composition I would also recommend setting the

Guide Line to the “Rule of Thirds” from the list of options.

Beginners Guide to the FZ300/330

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You will find this on page 4/9 in the Custom Setup (wrench

plus C icon tab)

The default time period for the camera self timer is 10

seconds.

Beginners Guide to the FZ300/330

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For normal operation I would suggest making this value 2

seconds unless you are doing “selfies” and want to appear in

the image yourself if using a tripod to shoot the image.

Self timer is found in the REC Setup menu tab, page 3/7.

Set it to the 2 second option.

The self timer will operate when the camera drive mode is

set to the self timer which we will see in a later section of

this guide book.

We are at this point just setting the default time that the self

timer will delay the process of taking the image when the

shutter button is depressed or the camera is used with an

external remote wired cable plugged into the “remote”

socket on the camera.

Using the self timer when the camera is on a tripod is a good

way of preventing any vibration caused when pressing the

camera shutter button. This vibration cam cause loss of

image sharpness.

I also recommend setting one of the Function buttons, Fn2

to select the AF focus area when the single area auto focus

mode is selected. This makes it very convenient to make

selection of the size and position of the AF (autofocus) area.

Begin by

selecting the

Fn Button Set

option from

the Custom

Setup menu on

page 7/9.

Beginners Guide to the FZ300/330

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Select the

“Setting in

REC mode”

and press

Menu/Set

Select the Fn2 icon on the button layout screen.

Now step

through to

page 3/4 to

select the

Focus Area Set

option and

press Menu/

Set

Beginners Guide to the FZ300/330

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