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.
 ■Settings: [AUTO] / [OFF]
 ●When [Wind Cut] is set to [AUTO], the sound quality may differ from that of normal 
recordings.    
						

							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 
menu is set to [
 
 ]. ●It may not be possible to view pictures on this camera that were previously edited on 
a computer.
 ●When the camera is switched to playback mode, the lens barrel will be retracted into 
the camera housing after approx. 15 seconds.
 ●This camera is compliant with the unified DCF (Design rule for Camera File system) 
standard formulated by the Japan Electronics and Information Technology Industries 
Association (JEITA), and with Exif (Exchangeable image file format). Files that are not 
DCF-compliant cannot be played back.
Press the playback button
The camera switches to the playback 
mode.
Press   to select a picture to be 
displayed
 • When you press and hold the button, the 
pictures are displayed one after another .
 • Y

ou can also rotate the rear dial to select a 
picture. 
 ■To end playback
Press the playback button again. 
Application (View)       
						

							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 towards W side
 ●Playback zoom cannot be used during motion picture playback.
 ■Switching the displayed picture without changing the zoom ratio and 
position of Playback zoom
Rotate the rear dial during Playback zoom. • When you display pictures with dif ferent picture sizes and aspect ratios or pictures 
that are rotated when they are displayed, the zoom position returns to the center .
 ■Enlarging the focus point
Press the [ND/FOCUS] lever. • Pictures recorded without adjusting focus or recorded with Manual Focus are not 
enlarged on the screen.     
						

							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 button and press [MENU/SET] on the 12-picture or 30-picture screen, the selected picture is displayed on the 1-picture 
screen (full-screen).
 ●Pictures displayed with [!] cannot be played back.     
						

							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 displayed as January 1st, 2012. If the date / time was set 
incorrectly, pictures will be displayed with the incorrect settings.
 ●Pictures taken with destination settings made in [World Time] are displayed in the 
calendar screen using the appropriate date for the destination’s time zone.     
						

							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 recorded using burst or interval recording) is 
displayed.
 • Y

ou can delete or edit all the still pictures in a group at 
once.
: Burst pictures: Pictures recorded in interval recording
 ■Displaying pictures in a group
When you press  while a representative picture is being 
displayed, only a series of still pictures recorded using burst 
or interval recording will be displayed.
 • Only pictures grouped together are displayed. • T

o return to the representative screen display  
→ Press 
.
 ■Playback for burst pictures/Continuous playback
Press  to play back a series of pictures one after another. • Regarding playback for burst pictures/continuous playback, refer to the operations  during motion picture playback.  (→
159)
 ■About retrieving group information
When the power is turned on, the  (acquiring information icon) may appear.
While  is displayed, pictures cannot be deleted and the [Playback] menu cannot 
be used. Only [Normal Play] or [Calendar] is available as the [Playback Mode].    
						

							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 
together to form a group after the total number of still pictures exceeds 50,000. Also, if 
there is only one picture left in a group because the other pictures were deleted or for 
some other reason, no group is formed.
 ●Pictures recorded using other cameras may not be recognized as a group picture. ●Pictures recorded without setting the clock are not combined together to form a group.     
						

							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 mode just like playing back a motion picture.
 • Operations during panorama picture scrolling playback
Pause/play
Single-frame rewind  (while paused)
Single-frame forward 
(while paused)
Stop    
						

							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
Stop
Fast rewind (2 steps)
*Fast forward (2 steps)*
Save a motion picture as a still picture
(Only while the camera is paused) 
* Single-frame forward/single-frame rewind can be performed while paused.
 ●Volume can be adjusted with the zoom lever.
 ●It may not be possible to properly play back motion pictures recorded using other 
cameras.
 ●Some information will not be displayed for motion pictures recorded in [A
VCHD]. ●Motion pictures can be viewed on your computer using “PHOTOfunSTUDIO” on the 
supplied CD
- ROM.
 ●Motion pictures recorded with [Miniature Effect] in [Creative Control] Mode play back 
at approximately 10x speed.    
						

							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 becomes slightly lower depending on the [Rec Quality] setting of 
the original motion picture.
 ●It may not be possible to capture still pictures from motion pictures that were recorded 
with a different camera.