Panasonic DMC-LS2 operating instructions Slow Shutter, Recording bright pictures in dark places

Menu Settings

(1-area-focusing):

The camera focuses on the subject in the AF area on the center of the screen.

(Spot-focusing):

The camera focuses on a limited narrow area in the screen.

∫About 3-area-focusing (High speed) and 1-area-focusing (High speed)

•You can focus on the subject more quickly than other AF modes.

•The picture may stop moving for a moment before being brought into focus when you press the shutter button halfway. This is not a malfunction.

•The AF area displayed on the center of the screen is bigger than usual when using the digital zoom or when taking pictures in dark places.

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•The camera is focusing on all the AF areas when multiple AF areas (max.

5 areas) light at the same time.

The focus position is not predetermined. It is set to a position automatically determined by the camera at the time of focusing. If you want to determine the focus position to take pictures, switch the AF mode to 1-area-focusing mode (High speed), 1-area-focusing mode or Spot-focusing mode.

•Switch the AF mode to 1-area-focusing mode (High speed) or 1-area-focusing

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mode if it is difficult to focus using Spot-focusing mode.

•The AF mode cannot be set in simple

mode [] or [FIREWORKS] (P52) in scene mode.

[SLOW SHUTTER]

Recording bright pictures in dark places

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Press [ MENUSET ] to display the [REC] mode menu and select the item to set. (P59) The shutter speed is automatically adjusted. However, if you want brighter pictures you can manually select an even slower shutter speed.

•The slow shutter speeds you can select are: [1/8–], [1/4–], [1/2–] and [1–].

•This is effective if you want to take bright pictures of both a night landscape and a subject using [NIGHT PORTRAIT] (P50) in scene mode.

Slow shutter	1/8 –	1 –
setting
Brightness	Darker	Brighter
Jitter	Less	More

∫Example

1/8–1–

•This should usually be set to [1/8–] to take pictures. (When you select a slow shutter

speed other than [1/8–], [ ] appears on the lower left of the screen.)

•When the shutter speed is made slower using [SLOW SHUTTER], jitter is likely to occur. We recommend using a tripod and the self-timer (P41) for taking pictures.

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