Har ? 2 years warranty? Mine only had one !!

Panasonic Australia standard warranty is only one year.
NOUUUU

Erm, I'm not sure about other people.
But if you got plenty of time, try to use the Shutter/Aperture priority or Manual control to take pictures. That will allow you to familiarize more with the camera.

As for IA mode, use it if you think you need fast P&S with clear images.

I'm a camera n00b too so don't take my comments for granted

Eh, I tried HDTV movie just now.

I started recording the Pizza I was holding about 0.5 feet away from the camera.
Then I continue to record my cousins eating their pizza about 4 foot away.

But the camera did not auto zoom the lens and my cousins were blur in the movie.

What's wrong ar?

Is it because I turn the focusing to manual and the lens did not autozoom properly ...

EDIT: CRAZY CAM ... 48 sec of HDTV = 110 MB of your harddisk space.

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Added on November 18, 2008, 6:04 pmHell yeah! The LX3 manual is crap ...
EDIT: is it out? Looks like it's not out yet. I checked the official website.

This post has been edited by SeeD: Nov 18 2008, 06:25 PM

What I tried ... is I set the aperture value to 2.0
Then put macro auto focus, then put it near to the object (if the background is very near as well)

If the background is quite far, then it will definitely blur out.

Read that, done that, and it works. But I still have no idea how to make the background completely blur ... is that possible with this LX3 ?

WOW ! I appreciate that Ricoh LC-1 mod guide !!

Yeah it's in HD, but even if I'm recording 6** x 4** movies, it wouldn't come out blur right?
I'll test it again tomorrow and see if's because I set it to manual focus or not ...

I noticed you guys used the thin wrist strap to tie your cameras ...
The shop owner told me never use thin wrist strap to tie heavy cameras ...

O_O ...

I exchanged my bag for the Lowepro Edit 100 ...
PERFECT bag for LX3 ...
chargers, extra batt, sdcards along with the camera all can dump inside the bag.

But it's abit bulky ... That's what happens when your camera is not big nor small

LOL Ianho ...

But I feel like modding the neck strap (the one that contains the word "LUMIX") into my wrist strap

Got wrist strap edi still need neck(shoulder) strap ma ?

Eww ... the camera will look ugly like that.

But I've already got a pouch that can hang around my shoulder ... Still not enough ?

I see green as well ... for the flower.

Zooming closes the aperture smaller right?
Then you need longer shutter speed to compensate for a properly lighted picture.

I'm not too sure ... cus when I zoom with my LX3, the aperture value went down from f2.0 to f2.1

My assumption is the picture is taken in the evening

The left one definitely doesn't look natural (I'm not saying neutral, I'm saying natural) because the sky colour belongs to the afternoon.

While the right one is a bit yellowish green.

Relax we're all discussing about the pictures thats all.

You should be proud

Anyways, guys, why is it that my camera can't focus on objects less than 1 feet away during HD recording?

BTW I've got the martin fields screen protector and it's marvelous !

What V1.1 Firmware ??

1 question.

Do you guys always shoot with autobracketing on to get the best brightness level ?

Why do you need that for??

Is that a flash? or ...

1 question. If I'm taking at shutter speed of 1/2000 or lower. Exposure time is not enough unless I turn on the flash?