LEICA V-LUX 4 Instructions About downloading Adobe® Photoshop® Lightroom® see page . Table of Contents Before Use Care of the camera ...................................................................................................... 6 Scope of Delivery / Accessories ................................................................................ 7 Names and Functions of the Components ............................................................... 8 Preparation Attaching the Lens Cap/the Shoulder Strap ........................................................... 13 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 ...................................................................................................... 24 • Changing the clock setting.................................................................................. 25 Tips for taking good pictures ................................................................................... 26 • Preventing camera shake................................................................................... 26 Basic Selecting the Recording Mode................................................................................. 27 Program Mode ........................................................................................................... 28 • Program Shift...................................................................................................... 29 Focusing .................................................................................................................... 30 Snapshot Mode.......................................................................................................... 32 • Using the Defocus Control Function................................................................... 34 • Changing the menu settings............................................................................... 35 • Recording using Snapshot Plus Mode................................................................ 36 Recording Motion Pictures....................................................................................... 38 • Recording still pictures while recording motion pictures..................................... 41 Playing Back Pictures............................................................................................... 42 • Selecting a picture .............................................................................................. 42 • Displaying Multiple Images ................................................................................. 43 • Using the Playback Zoom................................................................................... 43 Playing Back Motion Pictures .................................................................................. 44 • Creating Still Pictures from a Motion Picture ...................................................... 45 Deleting Pictures ....................................................................................................... 46 • Deleting a single picture ..................................................................................... 46 • Deleting multiple pictures (up to 100) or all the pictures..................................... 47 Setting the Menu ....................................................................................................... 48 • Setting menu items............................................................................................. 49 • Using the Quick Menu ........................................................................................ 51 About the Setup Menu .............................................................................................. 52 - 2 - Recording About the Monitor/the Viewfinder............................................................................ 66 Using the Zoom ......................................................................................................... 68 • Using the Optical Zoom/the Extended Optical Zoom (EZ)/the Intelligent Zoom/ the Digital Zoom ................................................................................................. 68 Using the Built-In Flash ............................................................................................ 72 • Switching flash modes........................................................................................ 73 Exposure Compensation .......................................................................................... 76 Continuous Mode ...................................................................................................... 77 Using the Self-Timer ................................................................................................. 80 Setting the Sensitivity............................................................................................... 82 Setting the White Balance ........................................................................................ 84 Using Auto Focus...................................................................................................... 88 Close-up Pictures...................................................................................................... 92 Manual Focusing ....................................................................................................... 93 Focus and Exposure Memory Lock (AF/AE Lock) ................................................. 96 Using the function button......................................................................................... 98 Aperture-Priority Mode ............................................................................................. 99 Shutter-Priority Mode.............................................................................................. 100 Manual Exposure Mode .......................................................................................... 101 Using the Scene Modes .......................................................................................... 102 • [Portrait] ............................................................................................................ 102 • [Soft Skin] ......................................................................................................... 103 • [Scenery]........................................................................................................... 103 • [Panorama Shot]............................................................................................... 104 • [Sports].............................................................................................................. 106 • [Panning]........................................................................................................... 106 • [Night Portrait]................................................................................................... 107 • [Night Scenery] ................................................................................................. 107 • [Handheld Night Shot]....................................................................................... 108 • [HDR]................................................................................................................ 108 • [Food]................................................................................................................ 108 • [Baby1]/[Baby2] ................................................................................................ 109 • [Pet] ...................................................................................................................110 • [Sunset]..............................................................................................................110 • [High Sens.] .......................................................................................................110 • [Glass Through] .................................................................................................110 • [3D Photo Mode]................................................................................................111 Using the different image effects............................................................................112 • [Expressive] .......................................................................................................113 • [Retro]................................................................................................................113 • [High Key] ..........................................................................................................113 • [Low Key]...........................................................................................................113 • [Sepia]................................................................................................................114