Panasonic MC-ZS8 Taking pictures with automatic settings, Take a picture, Intelligent Auto Mode

Taking pictures with automatic settings

[Intelligent Auto] Mode

Recording Mode:

Optimum settings are made automatically from information such as “face”, “movement”, “brightness”, and “distance” just by pointing the camera at the subject, meaning that clear pictures can be taken without the need to make settings manually.

Shutter button

Set to

Set to ([Intelligent Auto] Mode)

Take a picture

■Automatic Scene Detection

Press halfway	Press fully
(press lightly to focus)	(press the button all the
	way to record)

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

People are detected	People and night scenery are detected∗2
Baby is detected∗1	(Only when	is selected)
Scenery is detected	Night scenery is detected
A sunset is detected	A close-up shot is detected

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

∗1 When babies (under 3 years) that are registered with the Face Recognition function are recognized.

∗2 We recommend using a tripod and the self-timer.

If the camera automatically identifies the scene and determines that people appear as subjects in the picture (, , ), 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 .

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