User manual PANASONIC LUMIX DMC-ZX1 CARACTERISTIQUES TECHNIQUES

[. . . ] Operating Instructions for advanced features Digital Camera Model No. DMC-ZX1 Before use, please read these instructions completely. VQT2F55 Contents Before Use Quick Guide . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Standard Accessories . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Names of the Components . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Using the Playback Zoom . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51 Switching the [PLAYBACK] Mode . . . . . 51 Deleting Pictures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52 To delete a single picture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52 To delete multiple pictures (up to 50) or all the pictures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52 Advanced (Recording pictures) About the LCD Monitor. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54 Taking Pictures using the Built-in Flash. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56 Switching to the appropriate flash setting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56 Taking Close-up Pictures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61 [AF MACRO] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61 [MACRO ZOOM] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62 Taking Pictures with the Self-timer. . . . . . . . . . 63 Compensating the Exposure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64 Taking Pictures using Auto Bracket . . . . . . . . 65 Taking pictures that match the scene being recorded (Scene Mode). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66 Registering scenes in Scene Mode (My Scene Mode). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66 Selecting the Scene Mode for each recording (Scene Mode) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67 [PORTRAIT] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68 [SOFT SKIN] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68 [TRANSFORM] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68 [SELF PORTRAIT] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69 [SCENERY] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69 [PANORAMA ASSIST] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70 [SPORTS] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70 [NIGHT PORTRAIT] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71 [NIGHT SCENERY]. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71 [FOOD] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71 [PARTY] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72 [CANDLE LIGHT] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72 [BABY1]/[BABY2] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73 [PET] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74 [SUNSET]. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74 [HIGH SENS. ] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74 [HI-SPEED BURST] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75 [FLASH BURST] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76 [STARRY SKY] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77 [FIREWORKS] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77 [BEACH] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78 [SNOW] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78 [AERIAL PHOTO]. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78 [PIN HOLE] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79 [FILM GRAIN]. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79 [HIGH DYNAMIC]. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80 [PHOTO FRAME] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80 [UNDERWATER] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81 Motion Picture Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82 Preparation Charging the Battery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 About the Battery (charging/number of recordable pictures) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 Inserting and Removing the Card (optional)/the Battery. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 About the Built-in Memory/the Card . . . . . . . . 16 Setting Date/Time (Clock Set). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 Changing the clock setting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 Setting the Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 Setting menu items . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 Using the quick menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 About the Setup Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 Useful Functions at Travel Destinations (Travel Mode). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 Selecting the [REC] Mode. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36 Basic Taking pictures using the automatic function (Intelligent Auto Mode) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38 Scene detection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40 AF Tracking Function . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41 Settings in Intelligent Auto Mode . . . . . . 42 Taking pictures with your favourite settings (Normal Picture Mode). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43 Focusing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44 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) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44 Preventing jitter (camera shake) . . . . . . . 45 Direction detection function. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45 Taking Pictures with the Zoom. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46 Using the Optical Zoom/ Using the Extra Optical Zoom (EZ)/ Using the Digital Zoom . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46 Using the Easy zoom . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48 Playing back Pictures ([NORMAL PLAY]) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49 Displaying Multiple Screens (Multi Playback) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50 -2- Taking a picture with Face Recognition function. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85 Face Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86 Auto Registration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90 Sensitivity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91 Using the [REC] Mode Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92 [PICTURE SIZE] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92 [REC QUALITY] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93 [QUALITY]. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93 [ASPECT RATIO]. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94 [INTELLIGENT ISO]. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94 [SENSITIVITY] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95 [WHITE BALANCE]. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96 [FACE RECOG. ] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98 [AF MODE]. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98 [PRE AF] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101 [CONTINUOUS AF] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101 [I. EXPOSURE] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102 [MIN. SHTR SPEED] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102 [BURST] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103 [DIGITAL ZOOM] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104 [COLOR MODE] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104 [STABILIZER] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105 [AUDIO REC. ] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106 [AF ASSIST LAMP] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107 [RED-EYE REMOVAL] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107 [CLOCK SET]. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107 Taking and viewing clipboard pictures (Clipboard Mode) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108 Taking clipboard pictures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108 Viewing clipboard pictures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110 [ROTATE DISP. ] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130 [FAVORITE] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131 [PRINT SET] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132 [PROTECT] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134 [AUDIO DUB. ] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135 [FACE REC EDIT] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136 [COPY] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137 Connecting to other equipment Connecting to a PC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138 Printing the Pictures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141 Selecting a single picture and printing it . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142 Selecting multiple pictures and printing them . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143 Print Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144 Playing Back Pictures on a TV Screen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147 Playing back pictures using the AV cable (supplied). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147 Playing back pictures on a TV with an SD Memory Card slot. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148 Playing back on the TV with component socket . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148 Others Screen Display . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150 Cautions for Use. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153 Message Display . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 158 Troubleshooting. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161 Number of Recordable Pictures and Available Recording Time . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 170 Advanced (Playback) Playing Back Pictures in Sequence (Slide Show). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113 Selecting Pictures and Playing them Back ([CATEGORY PLAY]/ [TRAVEL PLAY]/[FAVORITE PLAY]). . . . 116 [CATEGORY PLAY]. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116 [TRAVEL PLAY] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118 [FAVORITE PLAY] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119 Playing Back Motion Pictures/ Pictures with Audio. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120 Motion pictures. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120 Pictures with audio . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121 Using the [PLAYBACK] Mode menu . . . . . 122 [CALENDAR] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122 [TITLE EDIT] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123 [TEXT STAMP] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125 [RESIZE] Reducing the picture size (number of pixels). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127 [TRIMMING] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128 [LEVELING] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129 -3- 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. [. . . ] conditions or with the same expressions. - 90 - Advanced (Recording pictures) Sensitivity Changing the sensitivity of Face Recognition. 1 2 3 4 Select [FACE RECOG. ] from the [REC] Mode menu, and then press 1. Press 3/4 to select [HIGH] or [LOW] and then press [MENU/SET]. Item [HIGH] [LOW] Description of settings Set when recognition is difficult. The likelihood of recognition increases, but so does the likelihood of mistaken recognition. Set when the frequency of mistaken recognition is high. 5 To return to the original settings, select [NORMAL]. You can also press the shutter button halfway to close the menu. - 91 - Advanced (Recording pictures) Using the [REC] Mode Menu [PICTURE SIZE] For details on [REC] Mode menu settings, refer to P21. The higher the numbers of pixels, the finer the detail of the pictures will appear even when they are printed onto large sheets. Applicable modes: When the aspect ratio is [X]. This item cannot be set in the Intelligent Auto Mode. (12M) (8M (5M (3M (2M (0. 3M ) ) ) ) ) 4000k3000 pixels 3264k2448 pixels 2560k1920 pixels 2048k1536 pixels 1600k1200 pixels 640k480 pixels When the aspect ratio is [Y]. (10. 5M) (7M (4. 5M (2. 5M ) ) ) 4000k2672 pixels 3264k2176 pixels 2560k1712 pixels 2048k1360 pixels When the aspect ratio is [W]. (9M) (6M (3. 5M (2M ) ) ) 4000k2248 pixels 3264k1840 pixels 2560k1440 pixels 1920k1080 pixels - 92 - Advanced (Recording pictures) Note "EZ" is an abbreviation of "Extra optical Zoom". The higher the numbers of pixels, the finer the picture will be when it is printed on a large piece of paper or displayed on a PC monitor. A Many pixels (Fine) B Few pixels (Rough) These pictures are examples to show the effect. The extra optical zoom does not work when Macro Zoom is set or in [TRANSFORM], [HIGH SENS. ], [HI-SPEED BURST], [FLASH BURST], [PIN HOLE], [FILM GRAIN] and [PHOTO FRAME] in Scene Mode so the picture size for [ ] is not displayed. Pictures may appear in mosaic depending on the subject and the recording conditions. Refer to P170 for information about the number of recordable pictures. [REC QUALITY] For details on [REC] Mode menu settings, refer to P21. Applicable modes: n [HD]/[WVGA]/[VGA]/[QVGA] Note Refer to P83 for details. [QUALITY] For details on [REC] Mode menu settings, refer to P21. Applicable modes: [A]: [>]: Fine (when giving priority to the picture quality) Standard (when using the standard picture quality and increasing the number of pictures to be recorded without changing the number of pixels) Note Refer to P170 for information about the number of recordable pictures. - 93 - Advanced (Recording pictures) [ASPECT RATIO] For details on [REC] Mode menu settings, refer to P21. This allows you to select the aspect ratio of the pictures to suit printing or the playback method. Applicable modes: [X]: [ASPECT RATIO] of a 4:3 TV [Y]: [ASPECT RATIO] of a 35 mm film camera [W]: [ASPECT RATIO] of a high-definition TV, etc. [X] [Y] [W] Note The ends of the recorded pictures may be cut at printing so check before printing. (P167) [INTELLIGENT ISO] For details on [REC] Mode menu settings, refer to P21. The camera automatically sets the optimum ISO sensitivity and shutter speed to suit the movement of the subject and brightness of the scene to minimise the jitter of the subject. Applicable modes: [OFF]/[ ISOMAX ]/[ ISOMAX ]/[ ISOMAX ] 400 800 1600 The upper limit of the ISO sensitivity can be set. The higher the value set for the ISO sensitivity, the more the jitter is reduced but the greater the amount of picture noise. Note Depending on the brightness and how fast the subject is moving, jitter may not be avoided. Movements may not be detected when a moving subject is small, when a moving subject is at the edge of the screen or when a subject has moved at the very moment when the shutter button was pressed fully. [. . . ] This does not affect the performance or quality of the camera. The lens clicks. When the brightness changes due to zoom or camera movement etc. , the lens may click and the picture on the screen may drastically change. If you do not use the camera for a long time, the clock may be reset. > When the message [PLEASE SET THE CLOCK] appears, set the clock again. (P18) When pictures are taken using the zoom, they are slightly distorted and the areas around the subject contain colours which are not actually present. [. . . ]