Panasonic Digital Camera Dmc Gx7 Owners Manual For Advanced Features

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Focus and Exposure Settings
Easily Optimizing the Brightness for a Specified 
Area 
(Touch AE)
Applicable modes: 
You can easily optimize the brightness for a touched position. When the face of the subject 
appears dark, you can brighten the screen according to the brightness of the face.
You can optimize just the brightness for a touched position or by optimizing the brightness 
when using Touch AF, you can optimize both the focus and brightness for the touched 
position.
∫ Canceling the Touch AE...

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Focus and Exposure Settings
1Select the menu.
2Select [Touch AF] and then touch [AF+AE].
3Touch the subject you want to optimize the 
brightness for.
•AF area setting screen is displayed. (P153)•The brightness optimization position is displayed on the 
center of the AF area. The position follows the movement 
of the AF area.
•[Metering Mode] is set to [ ] , which is used exclusively for the Touch AE.
•Touching [Reset] returns the brightness optimization position and the AF area to the 
center.
4Touch...

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Focus and Exposure Settings
•When recording with the Touch Shutter, the focus and brightness are optimized for the touched 
position before recording takes place.
•At the edge of the screen, the metering may be affected by the brightness around the touched 
location.
Not available in these cases:
•
[AF+AE], which optimizes the focus and brightness, does not work in the following cases.
–In Manual Focus–When using the Digital Zoom.–When the AF area has been set by using the cursor button 

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Focus and Exposure Settings
Setting the Light Sensitivity
Applicable modes: 
This allows the sensitivity to light (ISO sensitivity) to be set. Setting to a higher figure 
enables pictures to be taken even in dark plac es without the resulting pictures coming out 
dark.
1Press  3 ().
2Select the ISO sensitivity by rotating the rear 
dial.
•You can switch the functions between the rear dial and 
the front dial by pressing [DISP.].
3Rotate the front dial to set the upper limit of 
ISO sensitivity.
•It...

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Focus and Exposure Settings
¢1 When the [ISO Limit Set]  (P176) of [Rec] menu is set to anything except [OFF], it is set 
automatically within the value set in [ISO Limit Set].
¢ 2 Only available when [Extended ISO] is set.
Characteristics of the ISO sensitivity
•
For the focus range of flash when [AUTO] is set, refer to  P217.•When [Electronic Shutter] is set to [ON], the lSO sensitivity can be set up to [ISO 3200].•When [Direct Focus Area] (P155)  is set to [ON], the operations on the cursor...

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Focus and Exposure Settings
Applicable modes: 
It will select optimal ISO sensitivity with set value as limit depending on the brightness of 
the subject.
Settings: [400]/[800]/[1600]/[3200]/[6400]/[12800]/[25600]/[OFF]
•
It will work when the [Sensitivity] is set to [AUTO] or [ ].
Not available in these cases:
•
[ISO Limit Set] is disabled in the following cases:–[Clear Nightscape]/[Cool Night Sky]/[Warm Glowing Nightscape] (Scene Guide Mode)
–When recording motion pictures
Applicable modes: 
You...

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Focus and Exposure Settings
Applicable modes: 
ISO sensitivity can be set up to minimum [ISO125].
Settings: [ON]/[OFF]
Extending ISO sensitivity
[MENU]>[Rec] >[Extended ISO] 

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Shutter (Drive) Settings
Select a Drive Mode
Applicable modes: 
Selecting the drive mode allows you to switch the operation, such as burst recording or the 
self-timer, for when you press the shutter button.
1Press  4 ().
2Press 2/1 to select the drive mode, and then 
press [MENU/SET]
.
A Drive mode
•To cancel the drive mode, select [ ]. The setting will switch to [Single].•Settings for each drive mode can be changed by pressing  3.
Not available in these cases:
•
Not available with [Panorama Shot]...

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Shutter (Drive) Settings
Taking Pictures using Burst Mode
Applicable modes: 
Pictures are taken continuously while the shutter button is pressed.
•
Pictures taken with a burst speed of [SH] will be recorded as a single burst group (P240).
1Press 4 () .
2Press 2/1 to select the burst icon ([ ], 
etc.), and then press  3.
3Select the burst speed with  2/1, and then 
press [MENU/SET].
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Shutter (Drive) Settings
•The Burst speed may become slower depending on the following settings.–[Picture Size] (P139)/[Quality] (P140)/[Sensitivity]  (P174)/[AFS/AFF/AFC]  (P147)/
[Focus/Release Priority]  (P157)
•Burst speed can also be set with [Burst Rate] in the [Rec] menu.•Refer to P140 for information about RAW files.
4Focus on the subject and take a picture.
•Hold down the shutter button fully to activate the Burst 
Mode.
∫Canceling the Burst Mode
Select  [ ] (single picture recording) or [ ]...