Taking pictures with your own settings

‘NORMAL PICTURE mode’ (Continued)

Mode:

Align focus for desired composition

Useful when subject is not in centre of picture.

Taking pictures/motion pictures with zoom

Mode:

You can zoom in up to 12 times with ‘optical zoom’, and up to 21.4 times with ‘Extra optical zoom’ (pictures only) with lower picture quality. You can also use ‘digital zoom’ to zoom in even further.

First adjust focus according to subject

 

 

Subjects/environments which may

 

 

make focusing difficult:

Hold down

Fast-moving or extremely bright

objects, or objects with no colour

halfway

 

 

contrast.

 

 

 

 

• Taking pictures through glass or near

AF

area

objects emitting light. In dark, or with

 

 

significant jitter.

 

 

• When too close to object or when

 

 

taking pictures of both distant and

 

 

close objects together in the same

 

 

picture.

 

 

We recommend using the ‘Face

 

 

detection’ function when taking pictures

 

 

of people (P.73).

Do not block the lens barrel movement while zooming.

Zoom In/Out

Restore Enlarge

Turn to W side

Turn to T side

Focus range (P.47)

 

 

 

Zoom ratio

 

 

 

 

 

 

(approx.)

Zoom bar

 

 

 

Zoom speed can be adjusted. Zoom slowly → turn slightly Zoom quickly → turn completely

Adjust the focus after adjusting the zoom.

Return to desired composition

Press fully

AF area

Optical zoom and extra optical zoom (EZ)

Automatically switches to ‘optical zoom’ when using maximum picture size (P.69), and to ‘extra optical zoom’ (for further zooming) otherwise. (EZ is short for ‘extra optical zoom’.)

• Optical zoom

• Extra optical zoom

 

 

 

 

 

 

Zoom bar

 

 

 

 

( displayed)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Max. enlargement: 12 x

 

Max. enlargement: 14.3 x - 21.4 x

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

(Varies according to picture size.)

The focus display flashes and beep sounds when focus is not aligned.

Use the focus range displayed in red (P.47) as a reference. Even if the focus display is lit, the camera may be unable to bring the subject into focus if it is out of range.

AF area is displayed larger in dark conditions or when using digital zoom.

Most displays are temporarily cleared from screen when the shutter button is pressed halfway.

Focus display

Focus range

Maximum zoom ratios by picture size

 

Optical zoom

 

 

Extra optical zoom

 

PICTURE

10 M

7 M

5 M

3 M

2 M

0.3 M

SIZE

9.5 M

6.5 M

4.5 M

3 M

2.5 M

 

 

9 M

6 M

4.5 M

2.5 M

2 M

 

Max. enlargement

12 x

14.3 x

17.1 x

 

21.4 x

 

PICTURE

10 M

7 M

5 M

3 M

2 M

0.3 M

SIZE

9 M

6 M

4.5 M

 

2.5 M

 

 

7.5 M

5.5 M

3.5 M

 

2 M

 

Max. enlargement

12 x

14.3 x

17.1 x

 

21. 4 x

 

What is Extra optical zoom (EZ)?

If, for example, set to ‘3M ’ (equivalent to 3 million pixels), a picture will only be taken of a 3M-sized central part of a 10 M (equivalent to 10.1 million pixels) area, meaning that the picture can be enlarged further.

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Panasonic DMC-TZ7, DMC-TZ65 Taking pictures/motion pictures with zoom, Align focus for desired composition, Zoom In/Out

DMC-TZ7, DMC-TZ65, DMC-TZ6 specifications

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