Panasonic Digital Camera Dmc Sz5 Owners Manual For Advanced Features

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Recording
¢This item cannot be set in the Intelligent Auto Mode.
Note
•Depending on the operating conditions, it may take  time to take the next picture if you repeat the 
recording of pictures.
• It may take time to save pictures taken in Burst Mode on the card. If you take pictures 
continuously while saving, the number of frames in the continuous shooting decreases.
•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...

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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.
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...

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Recording
Applicable modes: 
When Red-Eye Reduction ([ ], [ ]) is selected, Red-Eye Removal is performed 
whenever the flash is used. The camera automatically detects red-eye and corrects the picture.
Settings: [ON]/[OFF]
Note
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Only available when [AF Mode] is set to [ š] and Face Detection is active.
•Under certain circumstances, red-eye cannot be corrected.
Applicable modes: 
Using one of these modes, jitter during picture ta king is detected, and the camera automatically 
compensates the...

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Recording
Applicable modes: 
You can take a picture with date and time of recording.Note
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Date information for pictures recorded with the [Date Stamp] set cannot be deleted.•When printing pictures with [Date Stamp] at a shop or with a printer, the date will be printed 
on top of the other if you choose to print with the date.
•If the time has not been set, you cannot stamp with the date information.•The setting is fixed to [OFF] in the following cases.–When recording motion pictures
–[Panorama...

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Recording
Using the [Motion Picture] Menu
For details on [Motion Picture] menu settings, refer to P41.
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
Various methods of playback
You can play back the recorded pictures in various methods.
1Press [(].
2Press [MODE].
3Press 3/ 4/2/1 to select item, and then press [MENU/SET].
•Following items can be selected.
[] ([Normal Play])  (P36)
[] ([Slide Show])  (P87)
[] ([Filtering Play])  (P89)
[] ([Calendar])  (P90) 

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Playback/Editing
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.
2Press 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....

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Playback/Editing
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.
Press...

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Playback/Editing
You can display pictures by recording date.Note
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The recording date of the picture selected in the playback screen becomes the date selected when 
the calendar screen is first displayed.
•If there are multiple pictures with the same record ing date, the first picture recorded on that day is 
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, 2012.
•If you take pictures...