Panasonic DMC-S1K owner manual Automatic Scene Detection

■Automatic Scene Detection

Camera identifies the scene when pointed at the subject, and makes optimum settings automatically.

People are detected	People and night scenery are detected
	(Only when	is selected)
Scenery is detected	Night scenery is detected
A close-up shot is detected	A sunset is detected

Reads subject movement to avoid blurring when the scene does not correspond to any of the above.

If the camera automatically identifies the scene and determines that people appear as subjects in the picture ( or ), Face Detection is activated, and the focus and exposure are adjusted for the recognized faces.

●According to the following conditions, different scene types may be determined for the same subject:

Face contrast, conditions of subject (size, distance, coloring, contrast, movement), zoom ratio, sunset, sunrise, low brightness, jitter

●If undesired scene type is selected, we recommend manually selecting the appropriate Recording Mode.

●We recommend using a tripod and the self-timer with and .

●In addition to Automatic Scene Detection, [ ] in [Sensitivity] and Backlight Compensation will operate automatically.

●The following menu items may be set in [Intelligent Auto] Mode:

•[Rec] menu: [Picture Size]∗1, [Burst], [Color Mode]∗1

•[Setup] menu∗2: [Clock Set], [World Time], [Beep], [Language], [Stabilizer Demo.] ∗1 Items that may be set differ from other Recording Modes.

∗2 Other items in the [Setup] menu will reflect settings made in other Recording Modes.

●Backlight Compensation

Backlight refers to the light that shines from behind the subject. When this occurs, the

subject appears darker, and so backlighting is automatically corrected by increasing the
brightness of the entire image.
●The settings for the following functions are fixed:
• [Auto Review]: [ON]		• [Auto Power Off]: [5 MIN.]
• [White Balance]: [AWB]		• [AF Mode]: (Face Detection)∗3
• [Stabilizer]: [ON]		• [AF Assist Lamp]: [ON]	• [Red-Eye Removal]∗4: [ON]
∗3	(11-area-focusing) when face cannot be recognized
∗4 DMC-S3 only
●The following functions cannot be used:
[Exposure], [Digital Zoom]

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