Panasonic DMC-TZ1 Cont.Af, About 3-area-focusing High speed 1-area-focusing High speed

Menu Settings

∫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.

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

•AF mode cannot be set in simple mode

[ ] and [SELF PORTRAIT] (P53) in scene mode.

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[CONT.AF]

Continuously focusing on a subject

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Press [ MENUSET ] to display the [REC] mode menu and select the item to set. (P70) This mode allows you to compose a picture more easily by always focusing on the subject.

The time required for focusing when the shutter button is pressed halfway will be reduced when the AF mode is set to

1-area-focusing, 1-area-focusing (High speed) or spot focusing.

•The [ ] indication appears when it is set to [ON].

•The battery will be consumed faster than usual.

•It may take time to focus on the subject if you rotate the zoom lever from Wide to Tele or suddenly change the subject from a distant one to a nearby one.

•We recommend setting [CONT.AF] to

[ON] if you use the zoom in motion picture mode [ ].

•You can have different [CONT.AF] settings when recording motion pictures and still pictures.

•Press the shutter button halfway again when it is difficult to focus on the subject.

•The [CONT.AF] setting is fixed to [OFF] in

simple mode [] and in [NIGHT PORTRAIT] (P52),

[NIGHT SCENERY] (P53), [FIREWORKS] (P55) and [STARRY SKY] (P55) in scene mode.

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