Panasonic Digital Camera Dmc Gm1 Owners Manual

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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 speed is automatically determined by the 
aperture value you set.
Shutter-Priority AE Mode 
(P87)The aperture value is automatically determined by the 
shutter speed you set.
Manual Exposure Mode 
(P88)The exposure is adjusted by the aperture value and the 
shutter speed which are manually adjusted.
Creative Video Mode 
(P116)Records motion pictures with a manually set aperture 
value and shutter speed.
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You cannot take still pictures.
 Custom Mode  (P118)Use this mode to take pictures with previously registered 
settings.
Scene Guide Mode 
(P93)This mode allows you to take pictures that match the 
scene being recorded.
Creative Control Mode 
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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 follows:
With 
information
¢Without 
information With information
(tilt sensor 
display)
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Without 
information (tilt sensor 
display)
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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 conditions, the histogram is displayed in orange.
–When the Manual Exposure Assistance is other than [ n0] during Exposure Compensation or 
in the Manual Exposure Mode
–When the flash is activated
–When suitable exposure is not achieved with the flash closed
–When the brightness of the screen is not correctly displayed in dark places•The histogram is an approximation in the Recording Mode.
•The histogram displayed in this camera does not match histograms displayed by picture editing 
software used in PCs etc.
Displaying/not displaying the guide lines
When [ ]  is set, guideline positions can be set by pressing  3/4/2/
1.
•You can also set the position directly by touching [ ] on the guideline 
of the recording screen.
[MENU] > [Custom]  > [Histogram]  > [ON]/[OFF]
[MENU] > [Custom]  > [Guide Line]  > [ ]/[ ]/[ ]/[OFF] 
						

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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 correcting the tilt, there may still be an error of approximately  n1°.
•When a function button is set to [Level Gauge], the tilt sensor display can be switched on/off by 
pressing the function button.
Not available in these cases:
•
Tilt sensor display may not be displayed correctly when this unit is in motion.
•When tilted significantly upwards or downwards to record, the tilt sensor display may not be 
displayed correctly, and the Direction Detection Function  (P56) may not work correctly.
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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 on the playback status.
∫To finish playback
Press [
(] again, press the shutter button halfway or press the motion picture 
button.
Not available in these cases:
•
This camera complies with the DCF standard “Design rule for Camera File system” established 
by JEITA “Japan Electronics and Information Technology Industries Association” and with Exif 
“Exchangeable Image File Format”.
This camera can only display pictures that comply with the DCF standard.
•The camera may not play back images recorded on other devices correctly, and the functions 
of the camera may not be available for the images.
Playing Back Pictures
2: Play back the previous picture
1: Play back the next picture
Switching the speed for forwarding or rewinding pictures continuously
[MENU] > [Custom]  > [Touch Scroll]  > [H] (High speed)/[L] (Low speed)
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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 enlarged part by pressing  3/4/2/1 of the 
cursor button or dragging the screen.  (P15)
•You can also enlarge (2k) the image by double-touching the part 
you want to enlarge. If you double-touch the enlarged image, the 
magnification is reset to 1 k.
Displaying multiple screens (Multi Playback)
Rotate the control dial to the left.
1 screen 12 screens 30 screens Calendar screen 
display
•
If the control dial is rotated to the right, the previous playback 
screen will be displayed.
•It is possible to switch the playback screen by touching the 
following icons.
–[]: 1screen
–[ ]: 12 screens
–[ ]: 30 screens
–[ ]: Calendar screen display
•The screen can be switched gradually by dragging the screen up 
or down.
•Pictures displayed using [ ] cannot be played back.
∫ To return to Normal Playback
Press  3/4/ 2/1 to select a picture and then press [MENU/SET].
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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 Recording Date (Calendar Playback)
1Rotate the control dial to the left to display the calendar screen.
2Press 3/4/ 2/1 to select the date to be played back.
3Press [MENU/SET] to display the images that are 
recorded in selected date.
4Press  3/4/ 2/1 to select a picture and then press 
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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 [ ] in the middle of the screen allows you to play back motion pictures.
∫Operations during Motion Picture Playback
•
To play back the motion pictures recorded by this unit on a PC, use the “ PHOTOfunSTUDIO ” 
software on the CD-ROM (supplied).
Playing Back Motion Pictures
Button 
operationTouch 
operationDescription of  operationButton 
operationTouch 
operationDescription of  operation
3Play/Pause4Stop
2
Fast rewind¢
1
Fast forward¢
Frame-by-frame 
rewind
(while pausing)Frame-by-frame 
forward
(while pausing)
Reduce volume levelIncrease volume 
level
¢ The fast forward/rewind speed increases if you press  1/2 again.
•Control panel disappears after approximately 2 seconds if no operation is performed. Touch 
the screen to redisplay the control panel.
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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 seconds, [ ] and other touch icons will 
disappear.
•Histogram is displayed in R (red), G (green), B (blue), and Y (luminance) during the playback.
Changing the information displayed on the playback screen
With 
information¢ 1
Detailed 
information  display
¢2
Histogram display¢ 2
Without 
information 
(Highlight 
display)
¢ 1,  2, 3 , 4
Without 
information¢4
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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 does not work while in Multi Playback, Calendar 
Playback, or Playback Zoom.
[ON] [OFF]