Panasonic Digital Camera Dmc Zs40 Owners Manual For Advanced Features

Wi-Fi/NFC
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 ■Registering History items to Favorite
Press [Wi-Fi] button
Select [History Connection]
Select the item you wish to register and press 
Enter a registration name
 • For details on how to enter characters, refer to “Entering  Text” (→75). • Up to 30 characters can be entered. 
A double-byte character will be treated as 
two characters.     

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 ■Editing items registered in Favorite
Press [Wi-Fi] button
Select [Favorite Connection]
Select the Favorite item you wish to edit and press 
Select item
Item Description
[Remove from Favorite] —
[Change the Order in 
Favorite] Select the destination
[Change the Registered 
Name]
 • For details on how to enter characters, refer to “Entering 

Text” 
(→75).
 • Up to 30 characters can be entered. 

A double-byte character 
will be treated as two characters. 
 ●The...

Wi-Fi/NFC
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Settings for sending pictures
When sending pictures, first select [New Connection], then select the method of sending 
pictures. 
After you have completed connecting, you can also change the sending settings, such as 
the size of pictures to be sent.
 ■[Send Images While Recording]
A picture can be automatically sent to a specified device every time you take it.
 ●[  ] is displayed on the recording screen while connected 
by [Send Images While Recording], and [...

Wi-Fi/NFC
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 ■Changing the settings for sending images
After you have completed connecting, you can change the sending settings, such as 
the size of pictures to be sent, by pressing the [DISP.] button.
Item Description
[Size] Resize the image to send.
[Original]/[Auto]
*1/[Change] • If you select [Auto], the image size is determined by the 
circumstances at the destination.
 • Y

ou can select the image size for [Change] from [M] or [S].  
The aspect ratio does not...

Wi-Fi/NFC
[Wi-Fi Setup] menu
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Configure the settings required for the Wi-Fi function.
[Wi-Fi Setup] cannot be changed when connected to Wi-Fi. (excluding [Network Address])
 • For details on how to select the [Setup] menu settings, refer to (→60).
Select [Wi-Fi Setup] in the [Wi-Fi] menu
Use cursor button to select item, and press [MENU/SET]
ItemDescription
[Smart Transfer]
 • For details (→238).
[LUMIX CLUB]
Acquires or changes the 
“LUMIX CLUB” login ID.
 • For details (→231).
[PC...

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Item Description
[NFC Operation]
Makes NFC function setting. [ON]: The NFC function works.
[OFF]
[Wi-Fi Password]
To prevent incorrect operation 
or use of the Wi-Fi function 
by a third party and to protect 
saved personal information, 
it is recommended that you 
protect the Wi-Fi function with 
a password. Setting a password will automatically display the password input 
screen when the Wi-Fi function is used.
[Setup]:
Enter any 4-digit numbers as the...

GPS
Using the GPS function to record the location of 
a picture
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GPS
Before use, read “About GPS” (→10) and “User License Agreement for Location Name 
Data” (→320). 
GPS stands for Global Positioning System. You can check your current location using 
GPS satellites. The camera receives radio signals that contain orbital information and 
time information from multiple GPS satellites, and uses them to calculate its current 
position. Calculating a position in this manner is known as...

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[GPS Setting]
When [GPS Setting] is [ON], the camera periodically receives radio signals from the GPS 
satellites and executes positioning. When positioning is executed successfully , the place 
name and position (latitude and longitude) information are recorded in still pictures and 
motion pictures (excluding certain picture quality settings  (→260)).
 • If you select automatic time adjustment using the GPS function when you...

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 ■Displaying the status and result of positioning
The icons that indicate the status and result of positioning will appear . When positioning 
is successful, camera will search the place name information (name of place and 
landmark) inside its internal database and display it.
Place name information
GPS reception icon
The same number of icons as the number of 
the GPS satellites (from which radio signals are 
successfully...

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 ■Information to be recorded on the pictures
When the camera successfully executes positioning, it records the following information 
in still pictures and motion pictures*
.
 • Location information (latitude and longitude) • Place name information (Country/region, province/state, city/borough/county, town/
village, landmark)
*
  Only the information determined at the t ime when the recording was started is recorded....