User manual PANASONIC DMCFZ45EP

[. . . ] Operating Instructions for advanced features Digital Camera Model No. DMC-FZ45 Before use, please read these instructions completely. VQT2Z00 Contents Before Use Quick Guide . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Standard Accessories . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Names of the Components . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 Operating the Rear Dial . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 Attaching the Lens Cap/ Shoulder Strap . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 Attaching the Lens Hood. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 Preparation Charging the Battery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 Approximate operating time and number of recordable pictures . . . . . . . . . . 18 Inserting and Removing the Card (optional)/the Battery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 About the Built-in Memory/the Card . . . . . . . . 22 Setting Date/Time (Clock Set). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 Changing the clock setting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 Setting the Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 Setting menu items . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 Using the quick menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29 About the Setup Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 Taking Pictures with the Zoom . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53 Using the Optical Zoom/ Using the Extra Optical Zoom (EZ)/ Using the Intelligent Zoom/ Using the Digital Zoom. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53 Playing back Pictures ([NORMAL PLAY]) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56 Displaying Multiple Screens (Multi Playback) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57 Using the Playback Zoom . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58 Enlarge the focus point (display focus point) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59 Switching the [PLAYBACK] Mode . . . . . 59 Deleting Pictures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60 To delete a single picture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60 To delete multiple pictures (up to 50) or all the pictures. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61 Advanced (Recording pictures) About the LCD Monitor/Viewfinder . . . . . . . . . . 62 Taking Pictures using the Built-in Flash . . . . . 66 Switching to the appropriate flash setting. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66 Taking Close-up Pictures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71 [AF MACRO] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72 [MACRO ZOOM] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72 Taking Pictures with Manual Focus. . . . . . . . . 73 Taking Pictures with the Self-Timer. . . . . . . . . 75 Compensating the Exposure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76 Taking Pictures using Auto Bracket . . . . . . . . 77 Setting the Light Sensitivity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78 Taking pictures by specifying the aperture/ shutter speed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80 Aperture-Priority AE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80 Shutter-Priority AE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80 Taking picture by setting the exposure manually . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81 Aperture Value and Shutter Speed . . . . . . . . . 82 Taking pictures while adjusting colour (My Colour Mode). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83 Adjusting the custom settings to achieve desired effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85 Taking expressive portraits and landscape pictures (Advanced Scene Mode) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86 [PORTRAIT] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87 [SCENERY] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88 [SPORTS] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88 [CLOSE-UP] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89 [NIGHT PORTRAIT] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90 Basic Selecting the [REC] Mode, and record still picture or motion picture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40 Taking the still picture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42 Recording the motion picture . . . . . . . . . . . . 42 Taking pictures using the automatic function (Intelligent Auto Mode) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44 Scene Detection. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45 AF Tracking Function . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46 Settings in Intelligent Auto Mode . . . . . . 47 Taking pictures with your favourite settings (Programme AE Mode). . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49 Focusing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50 When the subject is not in focus (such as when it is not in the centre of the composition of the picture you want to take). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50 Preventing jitter (camera shake) . . . . . . . 51 Programme shift. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52 -2- Taking pictures that match the scene being recorded (Scene Mode). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91 [PANORAMA ASSIST]. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92 [PARTY] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93 [CANDLE LIGHT] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93 [BABY1]/ [BABY2] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94 [PET] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95 [SUNSET] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95 [HIGH SENS. ] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95 [HI-SPEED BURST] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96 [FLASH BURST] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97 [PANNING]. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98 [STARRY SKY] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99 [FIREWORKS] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100 [BEACH]. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101 [SNOW] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101 [AERIAL PHOTO] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101 [PHOTO FRAME]. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101 Recording Motion Picture. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102 Changing [REC MODE] and [REC QUALITY]. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106 Recording Motion Picture with Manual Settings (Creative Motion Picture Mode) . . . . . . . . . . . . 109 Registering Personal Menu Settings (Registering custom settings). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111 Taking pictures in Custom Mode. . . . . . . . . . . 112 Taking a picture with Face Recognition function. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113 Face Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114 Setting Auto Registration/ Sensitivity. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117 Auto Registration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118 Useful Functions at Travel Destinations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119 Recording which Day of the Vacation and the Location of the Vacation . . . . . . . 119 Recording Dates/Times at Overseas Travel Destinations (World Time) . . . . . . 122 Using the [REC] Mode menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124 [ASPECT RATIO]. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124 [PICTURE SIZE] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125 [QUALITY]. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126 [SENSITIVITY] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127 [ISO LIMIT SET]. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127 [WHITE BALANCE]. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128 [FACE RECOG. ] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131 [AF MODE]. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131 [PRE AF] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134 [AF/AE LOCK] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135 [METERING MODE] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136 [I. EXPOSURE] (Intelligent exposure adjustment). . . . 136 [MIN. SHTR SPEED]. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137 [BURST] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138 [I. RESOLUTION] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138 [DIGITAL ZOOM] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139 [COLOR EFFECT] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139 [PICT. ADJ. ] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140 [STABILIZER]. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141 [AF ASSIST LAMP] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142 [FLASH]. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142 [FLASH SYNCHRO]. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143 [RED-EYE REMOVAL]. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143 [CONVERSION] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144 [CLOCK SET] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144 Using the [MOTION PICTURE] Mode menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145 [REC MODE] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145 [REC QUALITY] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145 [EXPOSURE MODE] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145 [CONTINUOUS AF] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146 [WIND CUT] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146 [ZOOM MIC] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146 Entering Text . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147 Advanced (Playback) Playing Back Motion Pictures. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148 Motion pictures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148 Creating Still Pictures From a Motion Picture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149 Playing Back Pictures in Sequence (Slide Show) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150 Selecting Pictures and Playing them Back ([MODE PLAY]/[CATEGORY PLAY]/ [FAVORITE PLAY]). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152 [MODE PLAY] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152 [CATEGORY PLAY] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153 [FAVORITE PLAY] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153 Using the [PLAYBACK] Mode menu . . . . . 154 [CALENDAR]. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154 [TITLE EDIT] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155 [VIDEO DIVIDE] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 156 [TEXT STAMP]. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157 [RESIZE] Reducing the picture size (number of pixels). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 160 [CROPPING] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161 [LEVELING]. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163 [ROTATE DISP. ] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164 [FAVORITE] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165 [PRINT SET] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 166 [PROTECT] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 168 [FACE REC EDIT] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169 [COPY] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 170 -3- Connecting to other equipment Playing Back Pictures on a TV Screen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171 Playing back pictures using the AV cable (supplied). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171 Playing back pictures on a TV with an SD Memory Card slot . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 172 Playing back on the TV with HDMI socket . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173 Saving the recorded still pictures and motion pictures. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 178 Copy the playback image using an AV cable . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 178 Copying to a PC using "PHOTOfunSTUDIO 5. 0 HD Edition". . . . 179 Connecting to a PC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 180 Printing the Pictures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 184 Selecting a single picture and printing it . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185 Selecting multiple pictures and printing them . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 186 Print Settings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187 Others Using the Conversion Lens (optional) . . . . . . 190 Using the Protector/Filter (optional) . . . . . . 192 Screen Display . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193 Cautions for Use . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 196 Message Display. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201 Troubleshooting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 204 Number of Recordable Pictures and Available Recording Time . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 214 -4- Before Use Before Use Quick Guide This is an overview of how to record and play back pictures with the camera. Charge the battery before use. 90 inlet type Insert the battery and the card. [. . . ] The [SENSITIVITY] likelihood of recognition increases, but so does the likelihood of mistaken recognition. To return to the original settings, select [NORMAL]. 4 Press the shutter button halfway to close the menu. - 117 - Advanced (Recording pictures) Auto Registration When [AUTO REGISTRATION] is set to [ON], the registration screen will display automatically after taking a picture of a face that has a high number of appearances. (It is not counted when It may be extremely hard to recognise only with [AUTO REGISTRATION], so register the face images with [FACE RECOG. ] in the [REC] Mode menu beforehand. [BURST] and Auto Bracket is set. ) Registering from the automatic registration screen 1 Press 3 to select [YES] and then press [MENU/SET]. Selection screen is displayed again when [NO] is selected, and when [YES] is selected with 3, [AUTO REGISTRATION] will be 2 Press 3/4 to select [NEW PERSON] or [ADDITIONAL IMAGE] and then press [MENU/SET]. Item [NEW PERSON] Description of settings set to [OFF]. A list of registered people is displayed when there are 6 people already registered. Select the person to be replaced. To additionally register a face image for a registered person. Press 3/4/2/1 to select the person to whom you wish add the picture, and then press [MENU/SET]. [ADDITIONAL IMAGE] If 3 images have already been registered, the picture replacement screen will appear. In this case, select the picture you wish to replace. After additionally registering or changing a face image, the screen returns automatically to the recording screen. 3 Perform the operation in Step 6 and following in "Registering face image of new person". Note If the registration screen will not display, it may display easier by recording in the same If a face is not recognised even though it is registered, it will make the recognition easier by registering the person again using the [FACE RECOG. ] in the [REC] Mode menu in that environment. If the registration screen is displayed for a person that is already registered, it will make the recognition easier by additionally registering. It may make recognition harder when a picture recorded with flash is registered. conditions or with the same expressions. - 118 - Advanced (Recording pictures) [REC] Mode: Useful Functions at Travel Destinations Recording which Day of the Vacation and the Location of the Vacation For details on the [SETUP] menu settings, refer to P27. If you set the departure date and the location of the vacation in advance, the number of days that have passed since the departure date (which day of the vacation it is) is recorded when you take the picture. You can display the number of days that have passed when playing back the pictures and stamp it on the recorded pictures with [TEXT STAMP] (P157). The number of days that have passed since the departure date can be printed out using the Select [CLOCK SET] to set the current date and time in advance. (P24) "PHOTOfunSTUDIO 5. 0 HD Edition" bundled software on the CD-ROM (supplied). Select [TRAVEL DATE] from the [SETUP] menu, and then press 1. Press 3 to select [TRAVEL SETUP] and then press 1. Press 4 to select [SET] and then press [MENU/ SET]. Press 3/4/2/1 to set the departure date (year/ month/day), and then press [MENU/SET]. - 119 - Advanced (Recording pictures) Press 3/4/2/1 to set the return date (year/ month/day), and then press [MENU/SET]. If you do not want to set the return date, press [MENU/SET] while the date bar is displayed. Press 4 to select [LOCATION] and then press 1. Press 4 to select [SET] and then press [MENU/ SET]. Enter the location. For details on how to enter characters, refer to "Entering Text" on P147. Press [MENU/SET] twice to close the menu. Take a picture. The number of days that have passed since the departure date is displayed for about 5 seconds if this unit is turned on etc. When the Travel Date is set, [--] appears on the lower right of the screen. - 120 - Advanced (Recording pictures) Cancelling the Travel Date The Travel Date is automatically cancelled if the current date is after the return date. If you want to cancel the Travel Date before the end of the vacation, select [OFF] on the screen shown in step 3 or 7, and then press [MENU/SET] twice. [LOCATION] also will be set to [OFF] automatically when the Travel Date is set to [OFF] in step 3. Note The Travel Date is calculated using the date in the clock setting and the departure date you set. If you set [WORLD TIME] (P122) to the [DESTINATION], the Travel Date is calculated using the date of the travel destination. [. . . ] However, when it is an out of frame display, [i999] is displayed if there are more than 1000 pictures remaining. Aspect ratio Picture size Quality Built-in Memory (Approx. 40 MB) A 7 84 165 340 670 1030 1370 2080 2770 4030 5560 8090 10980 > 10 120 240 500 990 1510 2020 3060 4080 5920 8190 11740 15940 1 20 42 87 170 260 350 530 700 1020 1420 2080 2820 1 22 46 95 185 280 380 570 770 1120 1540 2270 3080 A 9 110 220 450 890 1360 1830 2760 3680 5350 7390 10710 14530 > 14 165 330 680 1340 2030 2720 4110 5490 7970 11010 15830 21490 1 22 45 93 180 280 370 560 750 1090 1510 2220 3010 1 24 48 100 195 300 400 600 810 1170 1620 2380 3230 X ( ) Card 512 MB 1 GB 2 GB 4 GB 6 GB 8 GB 12 GB 16 GB 24 GB 32 GB 48 GB 64 GB - 214 - Others Aspect ratio Picture size Quality Built-in Memory (Approx. 40 MB) A 12 135 270 560 1110 1690 2270 3420 4570 6640 9170 13490 18300 > 20 220 440 900 1770 2690 3610 5440 7260 10550 14570 21420 29070 1 23 47 97 190 290 390 590 780 1140 1580 2310 3140 1 24 50 100 200 310 410 630 840 1220 1680 2470 3360 ( ) X ( A 14 160 320 660 1310 1990 2660 4020 5370 7790 10770 15830 21490 X ( A 18 200 400 820 1630 2470 3310 5000 6670 9690 13390 19170 26010 > 36 390 790 1610 3170 4820 6460 9740 13000 18880 26080 36420 49430 1 24 50 100 200 300 410 620 830 1200 1670 2440 3310 1 26 53 105 210 320 440 660 880 1280 1770 2600 3530 ) A 230 2510 5030 10240 20110 30580 40930 61740 82360 119590 165220 182130 247150 > 400 4310 8630 15360 30170 45870 61400 92610 123540 179380 247830 364270 494310 1 28 56 115 220 340 460 700 940 1360 1880 2750 3740 1 28 57 115 230 350 460 700 940 1370 1890 2770 3770 ( ) > 26 290 580 1180 2320 3520 4720 7120 9500 13790 19060 28020 38020 1 23 48 99 195 290 400 600 800 1170 1620 2380 3230 1 25 52 105 210 320 420 640 860 1250 1730 2540 3450 ) Card 512 MB 1 GB 2 GB 4 GB 6 GB 8 GB 12 GB 16 GB 24 GB 32 GB 48 GB 64 GB Aspect ratio Picture size Quality Built-in Memory (Approx. 40 MB) Card 512 MB 1 GB 2 GB 4 GB 6 GB 8 GB 12 GB 16 GB 24 GB 32 GB 48 GB 64 GB - 215 - Others Aspect ratio Picture size Quality Built-in Memory (Approx. 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