Panasonic Digital Camera Dmc Sz1 Owners Manual For Advanced Features

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Recording
Applicable modes: 
Pictures are taken continuously while the shutter button is pressed.
 [Burst]
SettingsDescription of settings
[ ˜ ]
([Burst On]) Burst speed
approx. 1.3 pictures/second
•You can take pictures until the capacity of the built-in memory or the card 
is full.
•The burst speed becomes slower halfway.  The exact timing of this 
depends on the type of card and the Picture Size.
•The focus is fixed when the first picture is taken.•The exposure and White Balance are adjusted...

Recording
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Note
•Burst Mode is not canceled when the camera is switched off.•If you take pictures in Burst Mode with the built-in memory, it will take time to write the picture 
data.
•The setting is fixed to [OFF] in [Panorama Shot] and [Photo Frame] in Scene Mode.•Number of recordable pictures will be fixed to 3 pi ctures when the self-timer is used (except for 
[]).
•The flash setting is fixed to [ Œ] (except for [ ]). 

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Recording
Applicable modes: 
Sets various color effects, including making the picture sharper, brighter, or applying a 
sepia tone.
¢ 1 This can be set only when Intelligent Auto Mode is set.
¢ 2 This can be set only during Normal Picture Mode.
 [Color Mode]
SettingsDescription of settings
[STANDARD]
This is the standard setting.
[Happy]¢ 1Image with enhanced brightness and vividness.
[VIVID]¢2The picture becomes sharper.
[B&W]The picture becomes black and white.
[SEPIA]The picture becomes sepia. 

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Applicable modes: 
AF assist lamp will illuminate the subject when the shutter button is pressed halfway, 
making it easier for the camera to focus when recording in low light conditions. (Larger AF 
area is displayed depending on the recording conditions.)
Settings: [ON]/[OFF]Note
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The effective distance of the assist lamp is a 
maximum of approximately 1.5 m (4.9 feet).
•When you do not want to use the AF Assist 
Lamp  A (e.g. when taking pictures of animals in 
dark places), set the...

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Recording
Applicable modes: 
Using one of these modes, jitter during picture taking is detected, and the camera 
automatically compensates the jitter, enabling jitter-free images to be taken.
Settings: [ON]/[OFF]Note
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Stabilizer is fixed to [OFF] in [Panorama Shot] in Scene Mode.•Stabilizer will be set to [ON] while recording motion pictures.•The stabilizer function may not be effective in the following cases.
Be careful of camera jitter when you press the shutter button.
–When there is a lot of...

Recording
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Using the [Motion Picture] Menu
For details on [Motion Picture] menu settings, refer to P37.
In [Panorama Shot] in Scene Mode, the [Motion Picture] menu will not be displayed.
Applicable modes: 
This sets up the picture quality of motion pictures.
Note
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What is bit rate
This is the volume of data for a definite period of time, and the quality becomes higher when the 
number gets bigger. This unit is using the “VBR” recording method. “VBR” is an abbreviation of 
“Variable Bit Rate”, and...

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Playback/Editing
Playback/EditingVarious methods of playback
You can play back the recorded pictures in various methods.
Slide the REC/PLAY switch to [(], and then press [MODE].
Press  3/4/2/ 1 to select item, and then press [MENU/SET].
•Following items can be selected.
[] ([Normal Play])  (P32)
[] ([Slide Show])  (P78)
[] ([Filtering Play])  (P80)
[] ([Calendar])  (P81) 

Playback/Editing
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You can play back the pictures you have taken in synchronization with music, and you can 
do this in sequence while leaving a fixed interval between each of the pictures.
Furthermore, you can play back the pictures grouped together by category, or play back 
only those pictures you have set  as favorites as a slide show.
This playback method is recommended when you have connected the camera to a TV set 
to view the pictures you have taken.
Press  3 to select [Start] and then press...

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Playback/Editing
∫Changing the slide show settings
You can change the settings for Slide Show Playback by selecting 
[Effect] or [Setup] on the slide show menu screen.
[Effect]
This allows you to select the screen effects or music effects when 
switching from one picture to the next.
[NATURAL], [SLOW], [SWING], [URBAN], [OFF], [AUTO]
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When [URBAN] has been selected, the picture may appear in black and white as a screen 
effect.
•[AUTO] can be used only when [Category Selection] has been selected....

Playback/Editing
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The images sorted into the category or images set as favorite are played back.
∫About the categories to be sorted
It will be sorted as following when [Category Selection] is set.
 [Filtering Play]
SettingsDescription of settings
[Category 
Selection] This mode allows you to search images by Scene Mode or other categories 
(such as [Portrait], [Scenery] or [Night Scenery]) and sort the pictures into 
each of the categories. You can then play back the pictures in each 
category....