Panasonic Digital Camera Dmc Zs50 Basic Owners Manual

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■Recording modes[Intelligent Auto] Mode
Take pictures with automatic settings.
You can switch to the [Intelligent Auto Plus] Mode on the menu to adjust the 
brightness and color settings to your liking.
[Program AE] Mode
Take pictures with automatic shutter speed and aperture value settings.
[Aperture-Priority] Mode
Determine aperture, then record pictures.
[Shutter-Priority] Mode
Determine shutter speed, then record pictures.
[Manual Exposure] Mode
Determine aperture and shutter...

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Taking pictures with automatic settings  [Intelligent Auto] Mode
 •[i.Zoom]
Increase the zoom ratio up to 2x higher than the original zoom ratio wit\
h 
limited deterioration of picture quality. 
Set the [i.Zoom] in the [Rec] menu to [ON].
 • [Digital Zoom]
Zoom 4x further than Optical/Extended optical zoom. When [Digital Zoom] \
is used simultaneously with [i.Zoom], you can only increase the zoom rat\
io 
up to 2x.
Note that, with Digital Zoom, enlarging will decrease picture...

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Recording motion pictures
You can record motion pictures with audio (stereo).
You can record motion pictures fitting each recording mode.
Press the motion picture button () to 
start recording
 
●Do not block the microphones () when recording 
motion pictures.
 
●You can also use zoom while recording motion 
pictures.
 • The zoom speed will be slower than normal.
 • The operating sounds of the zoom lever or control ring/control dial may be recorded in 
some cases.
 
●Still pictures...

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Recording motion pictures
 
■About the recording format for recording motion pictures
This unit can record motion pictures in either AVCHD or MP4 formats.
The recording format for motion pictures can be changed in [Rec Format] \
of 
the [Motion Picture] menu.
 
■About the recording quality setting
The recording quality for motion pictures can be changed in [Rec Quality\
] of 
the [Motion Picture] menu.
[AVCHD] in [Rec Format]∗ AVCHD  Progressive
Item Picture size fps Bit rate...

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Using the control ring/control dial
You can use the control ring/control dial to perform frequently used oper\
ations 
and settings directly.
Control ring
Control dial
Items that can be set by the control ring/control dial vary depending on\
 recording 
modes. Following are the pre-assigned settings.
Recording mode Setting
Control ring∗1Control dial
Step Zoom (→22)
Program Shift
Aperture adjustment
Shutter speed adjustment
Aperture adjustment Shutter speed adjustment∗2
Picture effects...

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Using the control ring/control dial
 
■To change the settings assigned to the control ring/control dial
Changes the settings assigned to the control ring/control dial.
   Press [MENU/SET]  Press     to select [Setup] menu and press [MENU/SET]  Press   to select [Ring/Dial Set] and press [MENU/SET]  Press   to select [  ] (control ring) or [  ] (control dial), and then press 
[MENU/SET]
   Press   to select the setting and press [MENU/SET]
The following settings can be assigned.
 •...

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Registering preferred functions to the 
[Fn1] / [Fn2] button
Taking pictures with the composition determined 
[Composition Guide]
Register frequently used functions from the [Rec] menu, [Setup] menu or \
other 
menus to the [Fn1] button or [Fn2] button for faster operation. • The [Fn1] button (see below) is set to [Composition Guide] and [Fn2] b\
utton (→19) is set to [LVF/Monitor Switch] at the time of purchase.
Press [MENU/SET]
Press     to select [Setup] menu and press [MENU/SET]...

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Viewing your pictures
Press the Playback button ()
 • By holding down the Playback button while the camera is off, you can turn the camera 
on in playback mode.
Press   or turn the control dial to select the picture to be 
displayed
Folder/File numberPicture number/
Total pictures
With location information
 • To play back a motion picture, select a picture with the motion picture  icon, and press
 .
Deleting pictures
Deleted pictures cannot be recovered.
Press [] button () to delete...

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What you can do with the Wi-Fi® function/
NFC function
 
■Using the camera by connecting it to a smartphone/tablet
By installing the “Panasonic Image App” on your smartphone/tablet, you can 
operate the camera remotely and use the smartphone/tablet to record and \
play back. In addition, you can copy pictures in the camera to the smart\
phone/
tablet.
Hereafter, this manual uses the term “smartphone” for both smartphones and \
tablets unless it is necessary to distinguish between...

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Using the camera by connecting it to a 
smartphone/tablet
You can connect to and operate this unit using a smartphone by following \
three steps.
STEP 1  Preparing the smartphone:
Installing the special app “Panasonic Image App”∗1
∗1 Hereafter “Image App”
The “Image App” is an application provided by Panasonic. 
• Supported OS 
iOS: iOS 6.0 or later
∗2Android™: Android 2.3.3 or later∗3∗2  iPhone 3GS is not supported.∗3  To connect this unit with [Wi-Fi Direct], Android OS 4.0 or above...