Panasonic DMC-TZ55 operating instructions Portrait, Soft Skin, Scenery, Sports

Recording

[Portrait]

When taking pictures of people outdoors during the daytime, this mode allows you to improve the appearance and make their skin tones look healthier.

∫Technique for Portrait Mode To make this mode more effective:

1 Rotate the zoom lever as far as possible to Tele.

2 Move close to the subject to make this mode more effective.

[Soft Skin]

When taking pictures of people outdoors during the daytime, this mode enables the texture of their skin to appear even softer than with [Portrait].

(It is effective when taking pictures of people from the chest up.)

∫Technique for Soft Skin Mode To make this mode more effective:

1 Rotate the zoom lever as far as possible to Tele.

2 Move close to the subject to make this mode more effective.

•If a part of the background etc. is a colour similar to skin colour, this part is also smoothed.

•This mode may not be effective when there is insufficient brightness.

[Scenery]

This allows you to take pictures of a wide landscape.

[Sports]

Setting for when you want to take pictures of sports scenes or other fast-moving events.

•Shutter speed may slow down up to 1 second.

•This mode is suitable for taking pictures of subjects at distances of 5 m (16 feet) or more.

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