LEICA DIGILUX 2 Instructions Illustrations inside front and rear covers Foreword We wish you a great deal of pleasure and success using your new LEICA DIGILUX 2. The high performance LEICA DC VARIO-SUMMICRON 7­22,5 mm f/2­2.4 ASPH.wide angle zoom lens will give you excellent picture quality and, thanks to its wide range of focal lengths, will open up a host of picture composition options, particularly for landscape and interior photography. Thanks to its fully automatic programmed exposure control mode and autoflash feature, the LEICA DIGILUX 2 provides uncomplicated photography. Alternatively, you can take over picture composition yourself at any time using the manual settings. You can select from numerous special functions to improve the picture quality even in very difficult exposure conditions. Please read these instructions so that you can make the most of your LEICA DIGILUX 2's capabilities. These instructions are printed on 100 % chlorine free bleached paper, whose high-quality manufacturing process protects the water and is environmentally friendly. 98 / Foreword This is a Class B product based on the standard of the Voluntary Control Council for Interference from Information Technology Equipment (VCCI). If this is used near a radio or television receiver in a domestic environment, it may cause radio interference. Install and use the equipment according to the instruction manual. FCC Note: (U. S. only) This equipment has been tested and found to comply with the limits for a Class B digital device, pursuant to Part 15 of the FCC Rules. These limits are designed to provide reasonable protection against harmful interference in a residential installation. This equipment generates, uses, and can radiate radio frequency energy and, if not installed and used in accordance with the instructions, may cause harmful interference to radio communications. However, there is no guarantee that interference will not occur in a particular installation. If this equipment does cause harmful interference to radio or television reception, which can be determined by turning the equipment off and on, the user is encouraged to try to correct the interference by one or more of the following measures: · Reorient or relocate the receiving antenna. · Increase the separation between the equipment and receiver. · Connect the equipment into an outlet on a circuit different from that to which the receiver is connected. · Consult the dealer or an experienced radio/TV technician for help. FCC Caution: To assure continued compliance, follow the attached installation instructions and use only shielded interface cables with ferrite core when connecting to computer or peripheral devices. Any changes or modifications not expressly approved by the party responsible for compliance could void the user's authority to operate this equipment. Trade Name: LEICA Model No.: DIGILUX 2 Responsible party/ Support contact: Leica Camera Inc. 156 Ludlow Avenue Northvale, New Jersey 07647 Tel.: +12017679608 Fax: +12017678666 e-mail: olesin@aol.com This device complies with Part 15 of the FCC Rules. Operation is subject to the following two conditions: (1) This device may not cause harmful interference, and (2) this device must accept any interference received, including interference that may cause undesired operation. This Class B digital apparatus complies with Canadian ICES-003 LEICA DIGILUX 2 Tested To Comply With FCC Standards FOR HOME OR OFFICE USE Safety instructions / 99 Contents Foreword . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98 Warning notices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103 Scope of delivery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103 Designation of parts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104 Detailed guide Preparation Attaching the carrying strap . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116 Attaching/removing the lens hood . . . . . . . . . . . . 116 Charging the battery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116 Loading the battery in the camera/ Removing the battery from the camera . . . . . . . 117 Charge level displays . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118 Mains operation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118 Inserting and removing the memory card . . . . . . . 119 The most important settings/controls Turning the camera on/off . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120 Selecting the record and review modes 8/7/6 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120 Shutter release button . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121 Viewfinder and monitor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121 ­ Switching between electronic viewfinder and monitor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121 ­ Diopter settings in the electronic viewfinder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121 ­ Switching the displays . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121 The menu system . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122 Displays Function displays In record mode 6/7 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106 In review mode 8 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110 Menu items In the main menu with the record modes j REC . . 112 In the setup menu with the record modes k SETUP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112 In the main menu with review mode E PLAY . . . 113 In the setup menu with review mode k SETUP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113 Quick guide Presets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114 Taking photographs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114 Viewing pictures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115 Enlarging pictures in the viewfinder/monitor . . . . 115 Deleting pictures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115 Formatting the memory card . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115 100 / Contents Presets Setting the menu language P LANGUAGE . . . . . 124 Setting the viewfinder and monitor brightness c FINDER/c MONITOR . . . . . . . . 124 Setting the time and date M CLOCK SET . . . . . . . 124 Setting automatic switch off u POWER SAVE . 125 Setting the key acknowledgement (response) tones and shutter sounds C BEEP . . . . . . . . . 126 Setting the resolution q PICT.SIZE . . . . . . . . . . . . 126 Setting the compression rate m QUALITY . . . . . 127 Setting the white balance a W.BALANCE . . . . . 128 Setting the function for automatic or one of the fixed settings AUTO/c/d/e/f/g . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128 Manually setting the white balance h . . . . . . 129 Fine adjustment of the white balance b WB ADJUST . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129 Setting the ISO speed s SENSITIVITY . . . . . . . . 130 Setting the picture properties (contrast, sharpness, color saturation) ö PICT.ADJ. . . . . . . . . . . . . 130 Record mode - 6/7 Adjusting the focal length . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131 Using the optical zoom . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131 Using the digital focal length extension ä D.ZOOM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131 Setting the distance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131 Automatic focusing/Autofocus . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131 ­ Close-up autofocus mode i . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132 ­ Using autofocus spot metering r SPOT AF . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132 ­ Metering memory-lock . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132 Manual focusing MF . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133 ­ The magnification function K MF ASSIST . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133 Setting the exposure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134 Taking photographs with programmed automatic exposure mode P . . . . . . . . . . . . 134 ­ Shifting program mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135 Taking photographs with speed priority mode T . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135 Taking photographs with aperture priority mode A . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136 Taking photographs with manual setting of shutter speed and aperture M . . . . . . . . . 137 Selecting the exposure metering method . . . . . . . 137 Multi-field metering 3 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137 Center-weighted metering 2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137 Spot metering 4 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138 The histogram . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138 Exposure compensation l . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138 Taking photographs with automatic exposure bracketing k . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139 Flash photography Taking photographs with the built-in flash unit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140 ­ Flash range . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142 ­ Indirect flash . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142 Taking photographs with the flash synchronized to the end of the exposure 5 FLASH SYNC. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143 Flash exposure compensation j . . . . . . . . . . 144 Taking photographs with external flash units . . 144 Immediate viewing after the shot Using automatic review of the last picture B AUTO REVIEW . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146 Viewing pictures with the VIEW- function . . . . 146 ­ Deleting pictures during viewing . . . . . . . . 147 Additional functions Exposure series 7 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148 Selecting the exposure frequency t BURST RATE . . . . . . . . . . . . 148 Pictures with sound w AUDIO REC. . . . . . . . . . . . 149 Video recording l/ü MOTION IMAGE . . . . . . 149 Animation recording A FLIP ANIM. . . . . . . . . . . 151 Taking photographs with the self-timer A . . . . . . 153 Calling up menu functions with the quick set button FUNCTION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153 ­ Setting the functions that should be called up with the quick selection button - i CUSTOM SET. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153 ­ Using the quick set button FUNCTION . . . . 154 Contents / 101 Review mode - 8 Reviewing single pictures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155 Rotating the shots Q ROTATE . . . . . . . . . . . . 155 Reviewing single pictures with sound . . . . . . . . . . 156 Setting the volume F VOLUME . . . . . . . . . . . 156 Simultaneous review of nine single pictures/ Enlarging and trimming when reviewing single pictures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 156 Reviewing video recordings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 158 Deleting pictures s . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 158 Deleting single pictures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159 Deleting multiple pictures simultaneously . . . . . 159 Deleting all pictures on the memory card . . . . . 160 Protecting pictures R PROTECT . . . . . . . . . . . . 160 Protecting single pictures/ Removing protection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 160 Protecting multiple pictures/ Removing protection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161 Removing protection for all pictures . . . . . . . . . 161 Formatting the memory card g FORMAT . . . . . 162 Print order (DPOF) settings on the memory card T DPOF PRINT . . . . . . . . . . . . 162 Print order settings for a single picture . . . . . . 163 Deleting individual print order settings . . . . . . . 163 Print order settings for multiple pictures . . . . . 163 Deleting all print order settings . . . . . . . . . . . . 164 Print order settings for an index print . . . . . . . . 164 Additional functions Adding sound to existing pictures w AUDIO DUB. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165 Reducing the resolution after recording V RESIZE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 166 Changing the trimming after recording W TRIMMING . . . . . . . . . . . . 167 Resetting all individual menu settings N RESET . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169 Creating new folder numbers L NO.RESET . . . . 170 Automatic review of a series of pictures U SLIDE SHOW . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 170 Presenting all pictures on the memory card . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 170 Presenting marked pictures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171 Deleting all markings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 172 Playback with AV equipment Y VIDEO OUT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 172 Data transfer to a computer/Printing with direct connection to a printer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173 Connecting and transferring the data in MASS STORAGE mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 174 Connecting and transferring the data in PTP mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175 Remote control mode via the USB connection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 176 Printing copies by direct USB connection to a printer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 176 Printing single copies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177 Printing all copies set by DPOF marking . . . . . . 177 The Epson PIM (Print Image Matching) format . . . 178 Installing the enclosed software . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179 Miscellaneous Accessories . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 180 Spare parts ...