Panasonic Digital Camera Dmc Lx7 Owners Manual For Advanced Features

Application (Record)
Using the [Motion Picture] menu
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 • For the setting procedures of the menu. (→ 25)
[Continuous AF]
Either allow the focus to be constantly adjusted during motion picture 
recording, or fix the focus position at the start of recording.
 ■Settings
[ON]
[OFF]: Fix focus position at the start of motion picture recording.
[Wind Cut]
Automatically detects wind sounds (wind noise) captured by the microphone 
and suppresses the sound if the wind is blowing too strongly....

Application (View)
Viewing your pictures  [Normal Play]
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When a card is in the camera, pictures are played back from the card. Without a card, 
pictures are played back from the built-in memory.
File number
Picture number/Total pictures
 ●If [Start Mode] in the [Setup] menu is set to [  ], the camera is activated in playback 
mode when the camera is turned on. 
You can also activate the camera in playback 
mode if the camera is turned on while pressing the playback button, even when the...

Application (View)
Viewing your pictures  [Normal Play]
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Zooming in and viewing “Playback zoom”
[ND/FOCUS] leverRear dial
Turn the zoom lever toward the T 
side to enlarge the picture
Current zoom position  
(Appears for 1 second)
Each time you turn the zoom lever toward the 
T side, the camera magnifies the selected 
area by 2x, 4x, 8x, and 16x in succession. 
(The picture quality displayed becomes 
successively lower.)
 • Move zoom position → Press     • To reduce zoom   → Turn lever...

Application (View)
Viewing your pictures  [Normal Play]
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Viewing a list of pictures “Multi Playback”
Turn the zoom lever toward the W 
side to display pictures in a list
Picture no./Total no.
Motion pictures
Panorama pictures  (→76)
 • Move the zoom lever further toward the W side and you can switch the display methods 
in the following order: 12-picture screen → 30-picture screen → Calendar playback. 
(T
urn the lever to the T side to return.)
 • When you select a picture using the cursor...

Application (View)
Viewing your pictures  [Normal Play]
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Viewing pictures by their recording date “Calendar Playback”
Turn the zoom lever toward the 
W side to display the calendar 
screen while displaying a 
30-picture screen
Selected date
 • When you select a recording date using the cursor button and press [MENU/SET], the display method changes to the 12-picture screen.
 ●Only months when pictures were taken are shown on the calendar screen. If the clock 
was not set, pictures will be...

Application (View)
Viewing your pictures  [Normal Play]
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Playing back pictures recorded in burst and interval recording
Still pictures taken in a sequence using the [  
 ] or [  ] burst setting or pictures taken 
using interval recording are grouped together when they are displayed. (Group display)
 ■Representative picture display
Number of burst pictures
When these pictures are displayed together with other still 
pictures or motion pictures, a representative picture (the 
first picture...

Application (View)
Viewing your pictures  [Normal Play]
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 ●When pictures set to [Favorite] are played back using [Slide Show] or [Filtering Play], 
the pictures cannot be displayed in a group.
 ●The following operation cannot be performed while a representative first burst picture 
is being displayed.
 • [Auto Retouch] • [Creative Retouch] • [Cropping] of [Playback] menu • [Leveling] of [Playback] menu ●Still pictures taken subsequently using burst or interval recording are not combined...

Application (View)
Viewing your pictures  [Normal Play]
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About panorama playback
Still pictures recorded with [Panorama Shot] Scene Mode are displayed in small size on a 
normal playback screen because the entire picture is displayed on the screen.
 ■Enlarged display
You can use the Playback zoom function to enlarge a picture.  (→153)
 ■Automatic scrolling display of panorama pictures
When you press , the camera automatically scrolls a panorama picture from edge to 
edge in enlarged display...

Application (View)
Viewing motion pictures
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This unit was designed to play motion pictures using the AVCHD, MP4 and QuickTime 
Motion JPEG formats.
Select a picture with the motion picture icon ([  ], [  ] 
etc.), and press 
Playback now starts.
Motion picture recording time
When playback starts, the elapsed playback time is 
displayed in the top right of the screen.
Example: After 3 minutes and 30 seconds: [3m30s]
Motion picture icon
 ■Operations during motion picture playbackPause/play...

Application (View)
Capturing still pictures from motion pictures
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Save a scene from a motion picture as a still picture.
Display the picture that you want to capture as a still picture 
by pausing a motion picture during playback
Press [MENU/SET]
 • A confirmation screen is displayed. Use cursor button to select [Yes] to save a still picture. 
[Rec Quality] of the original motion picture [Picture Size] Aspect ratio
[PSH] [FSH] [SH] [FHD] [HD] 2M16:9
[VGA] 0.3M4:3
 ●The picture quality...