Reset options Could someone tell me how to do a master reset on my Panasonic DMC-FZ7? I'm sure I have set something wrong and I would like to start over from scratch. Thanks, Royt622

It could be that the shutter in the camera has worn. If you have taken a fairly large amount of photos with this camera over the 6 or 7 years you may have had it, the shutter mechanism may be having a problem. They do have a finite life expectancy on all cameras.

Sounds like a cracked screen.

You don't need any program. Just get yourself a card reader and download your pics to a folder you create on your desktop.

Did you lose your button?, Or are you new to the camera and need instruction aon how to use it?

It wants you to format the card in the camera. This will erase the card so download any pictures on it first using a card reader if necessart.

Yes, you can record till the memory card gets full. You can get more recording time if you set the motion picture to the lowest quality ie QVGA 10fps.

Try this location: http://safemanuals.com/user-guide-instructions-owner-manual/PANASONIC/LUMIX%20DMC-FZ7-_E

Hey filmoman2008,
If you are really trying to use a micro SD card this camera actually takes normal SD memory cards not micro SD cards.

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Allan
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Here is the English manual Download

Check the WHITE BALANCE settings and the COLOR EFFECTS settings (marked as W. BALANCE and COL. EFFECTS when MENU is pressed).

When you got to the MENU setting, press up or down arrow until you reached either selection, press the left arrow, and you'll see several options under the selected function. In WHITE BALANCE, there's an option whether you'll be shooting under sunny or cloudy skies, tungsten or flourescent lighting, and an option to select Auto or Manually set White Balance. This affects the over all color tone as it compensates the color correction depending on your shooting conditions. Fluorescent lighting for example exhibits blue spectrum, thus setting White Balance to FLUORESCENT will add warm or yellow tones to the photo. Tungsten lighting and sunny conditions exhibits yellow lighting, and setting to the White Balance on this mode will add cool or bluish tone to the picture.

Same with COLOR EFFECTS: settings include WARM, COOL, SEPIA or BLACK AND WHITE (gray scale).

Chances are, you have accidentally set the WHITE BALANCE or COLOR EFFECTS to any of these. To see if this is the problem, try shooting under SIMPLE MODE (Marked with a HEART icon at the rotary dial on top right of the DMC-FZ7). If the problem goes away, then it is with the WHITE BALANCE and the COLOR EFFECTS settings. Try setting the COLOR EFFECTS to "OFF", and the WHITE BALANCE to "AUTO".

If all else fails, then you got a problem with the image sensor of your Panasonic DMC-FZ7 Digicam


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