Panasonic Digital Camera Dmc Gm1 Owners Manual
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61 3. Basic Operation Selecting the Recording Mode Select the mode by rotating the mode dial. •Rotate the mode dial slowly to select the desired mode. Intelligent Auto Mode (P73)The subjects are recorded using settings automatically selected by the camera. Intelligent Auto Plus Mode (P81)Allows you to adjust the brightness and color hue when in Intelligent Auto Mode. Program AE Mode (P83) Records at the aperture value and shutter speed set by the camera. Aperture-Priority AE Mode (P86)The shutter...
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62 3. Basic Operation Switching the Information Displayed on the recording screen ¢Histograms are displayed when the [Histogram] of the [Custom] menu is set to [ON]. It is also possible to display the Exposure meter by setting the [Expo.Meter] of the [Custom] menu to [ON]. (P84) •If approximately 1 minute elapses without an operation being performed, part of the display will disappear. Press [DISP.] or touch the monitor to make the display reappear. Press [DISP.] to change. •Screen will switch as...
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63 3. Basic Operation Displaying/not displaying the histogram You can set the position by pressing 3/4/2/1. •Direct touch operation is also possible from the recording screen. •A histogram is a graph that displays brightness along the horizontal axis (black to white) and the number of pixels at each brightness level on the vertical axis. It allows you to easily check a picture’s exposure. A dark B bright •When the recorded picture and the histogram do not match each other under the following...
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64 3. Basic Operation ∫About the tilt sensor display With the tilt sensor displayed, it is easy to correct the tilt of the camera etc. 1Press [DISP.] to display the tilt sensor. 2Check the tilt of the camera. A Horizontal direction: Correcting tilt to the left B Vertical direction: Correcting downward tilt •When the tilt of the camera is little, the indicator changes to green.•When recording with a vertical orientation, the display automatically switches to a vertically orientated display. •Even after...
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65 3. Basic Operation Playing Back Pictures/Motion Pictures 1Press [(]. 2Press 2/1 . •If you press and hold 2/1, you can play back the pictures in succession. •It is also possible to forward or rewind the image by dragging the screen horizontally (P15) . •You can forward or rewind pictures continuously by keeping your finger on the left or right sides of the screen after forwarding/rewinding a picture. (Pictures are displayed reduced in size) •Speed of picture forwarding/rewinding changes depending...
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66 3. Basic Operation Using the Playback Zoom Rotate the control dial to the right. 1k 2k 4k 8k 16k •If the control dial is rotated to the left after the image is enlarged, the magnification will be reduced. •You can also enlarge/reduce the image by pinching out/pinching in (P15) on the part you want to enlarge/reduce. •When you change the magnification, the zoom position indication A appears for about 1 second. •The more a picture is enlarged, the more its quality deteriorates. •You can move the...
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67 3. Basic Operation •The recording date of the picture selected in the playback screen becomes the date selected when the Calendar screen is first displayed. •You can display the Calendar between January 2000 and December 2099. •If the date is not set in the camera, the recording date is set as January 1st, 2013.•If you take pictures after setting the travel destination in [World Time], the pictures are displayed by the dates at the travel destination in Calendar Playback. Displaying Pictures by...
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68 3. Basic Operation This unit was designed to play motion pictures using the AVCHD, MP4 and QuickTime Motion JPEG formats. • Motion pictures are displayed with the motion picture icon ([ ]). Press 3 to play back. AMotion picture recording time •After playback starts, the elapsed playback time is displayed on the screen. For example, 8 minutes and 30 seconds is displayed as [8m30s]. •Some information (recording information, etc.) is not displayed for motion pictures recorded in [AVCHD]. •Touching [...
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69 3. Basic Operation Press [DISP.] to switch the monitor screen. •Screen will switch as follows: ¢ 1 If approximately 1 minute elapses without an operation being performed, part of the display will disappear. Press [DISP.] or touch the monitor to make the display reappear. ¢ 2 Not displayed during playback zoom, motion picture playback, sequential playback or a slide show. ¢ 3 This is displayed if [Highlight] (P70) in the [Custom] menu is set to [ON]. ¢ 4 If no operation is performed for a number of...
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70 3. Basic Operation Displaying/not displaying white saturated areas [MENU] > [Custom] > [Highlight] > [ON]/[OFF] When the Auto Review function is activated or when playing back, white saturated areas appear blinking in black and white. This does not affect the recorded image. • If there are any white saturated areas, we recommend compensating the exposure towards negative (P157) referring to the histogram (P63) and then taking the picture again. It may result in a better quality picture. •This...