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. For each step, be sure to refer to the pages indicated in brackets. [. . . ] Press 3/4 to select [DELETE] and press [MENU/SET]. Press 3/4/2/1 to select the image of the person to delete and then press [MENU/SET]. Press 3 to select [YES] and then press [MENU/SET]. You can also press the shutter button halfway to close the menu. - 89 - Advanced (Recording pictures) Auto Registration When [AUTO REGISTRATION] is set to [ON] in step 3 of "Change the information for a registered person" (P89) while [FACE RECOG. ] in the [REC] Mode menu is set to [ON], the registration screen will display automatically after taking a picture of a face that has a high number of appearances. Registration screen is displayed after approximately 3 pictures. (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], [AUDIO REC. ] and Auto Bracket is set. ) Registering from the automatic registration screen 1 Press 3 to select [YES] and then press [MENU/SET]. If there are no registered persons, proceed to step 3. 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 replacing a face image, the screen returns automatically to 3 Perform the operation in Step 5 and following in "Registering face image of new person". the recording screen. 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. - 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. (P21) Press 4 to select [SET] and then press [MENU/SET]. Press 4 to select [SENSITIVITY] and then press [MENU/SET]. 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. [. . . ] When using the extra optical zoom, the zooming action will stop temporarily. This is not a malfunction. Zoom does not go up to maximum magnification. (P62) Maximum zoom during Macro Zoom Mode is 3k digital zoom. - 168 - Others The file numbers are not recorded consecutively. When you perform an operation after taking a certain action, the pictures may be recorded in folders with different numbers from the ones used prior to the operation. [. . . ]