Useful features for travel (Continued)

Mode:

Recording only. (Cannot set.)

WORLD TIME

(Registering local time at your travel destination)

Set-up:• Clock must be set in advance (P.17).

Press ‘MENU/SET’ → ‘ SETUP MENU’ → Select ‘WORLD TIME’

‘PLEASE SET THE HOME AREA’ will be displayed when setting for the first time. In this case, press ‘MENU/SET’ and skip to step .

Set home area

Set destination area

Select ‘HOME’

Select ‘DESTINATION’

Set your home area

Set destination area

Current time

Current time at selected

To cancel

destination

To cancel

Press .

 

Press .

Difference with GMT (Greenwich

Difference with home time

Mean Time)

City/area name

City/area name

Using REC/MOTION PICTURE menu

REC/PLAY switch:

See P.18 for menu setting procedure.

‘Quick menu’ (P.20) is useful to easily call up frequently-used menus.

REC menu items will be synchronized with items of the same names in the MOTION PICTURE menu (i.e. settings changes in one will be reflected in the other). Settings selected in the REC menu that are not available in the MOTION PICTURE menu will be

set as follows.

 

• AF MODE: (1-area-focusing)

• COLOR MODE: STANDARD

PICTURE SIZE

Set size of picture. Number of pictures which can be recorded depends on this setting and on ‘QUALITY’ (P.70).

MODE: → REC menu

→ REC menu

Settings:

Recording picture capacity (P.124)

ASPECT RATIO

 

 

Picture size

 

 

 

 

 

10 M

7 M

5 M

3 M

2 M

0.3 M

 

 

 

 

 

 

3648×2736

3072×2304

2560×1920

2048×1536

1600×1200

640×480

 

 

 

 

 

 

9.5 M

6.5 M

4.5 M

3 M

2.5 M

 

 

 

 

 

 

3776×2520

3168×2112

2656×1768

2112×1408

2048×1360

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

9 M

6 M

4.5 M

2.5 M

2 M

 

 

 

3968×2232

3328×1872

2784×1568

2208×1248

1920×1080

 

 

 

 

Recording picture capacity (P.126)

Screen from step will then be displayed only when camera is used for the first time (or has been reset).

To close menu, press ‘MENU/SET’ 3 times.

Finish

If actual destination is unavailable, select based on ‘difference with home time’.

Finish

ASPECT RATIO

 

Picture size

 

 

 

 

 

10 M

7 M

5 M

3 M

2 M

0.3 M

 

 

 

 

3648×2736

3072×2304

2560×1920

2048×1536

1600×1200

640×480

 

 

 

 

9 M

6 M

4.5 M

2.5 M

 

 

 

 

 

 

3648×2432

3072×2048

2560×1712

2048×1360

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

7.5 M

5.5 M

3.5 M

2 M

3648×2056

3072×1728

2560×1440

1920×1080

 

 

 

Upon your return

Go through steps ,

and

on the upper left, and return to the original time.

 

To set/release summer time

Press ▲ in step . (Press again to release)

When summer time is set in ‘DESTINATION’, the current time is advanced by 1 hour. If the setting is canceled, the time automatically returns to the current time. Even if you set summer time in ‘HOME’, current time will not be changed. Please advance the current time by 1 hour in ‘CLOCK SET’ (P.17).

Pictures and motion pictures in Motion JPEG recorded when set to a destination are

indicated by (DESTINATION) in playback mode.

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This setting is not available in (INTELLIGENT AUTO mode).

Extra optical zoom can be used for picture sizes indicated with . Mosaic effect may appear depending on subject and recording conditions.

Setting guide

Larger picture size

 

Smaller picture size

For example, ‘0.3 M ’ is suitable

 

Crisper picture

 

Coarser picture

for e-mail attachments or longer

 

lower recording capacity

 

higher recording

recording.

 

 

capacity

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Panasonic DMC-TZ65 Using REC/MOTION Picture menu, World Time, Registering local time at your travel destination

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