Panasonic DMC-ZS1 LCD monitor dims during motion picture recording, Brightness is unstable

Q&A Troubleshooting (Continued)

LCD monitor

LCD monitor dims during motion picture recording.

LCD monitor may dim if continuing motion picture recording for long periods.

Monitor sometimes shuts off even though power is on.

Camera set to ‘AUTO LCD OFF’ (P.23).

After recording, monitor shuts off until next picture can be recorded. (Approx. 6 seconds (Max.) when recording to the built-in memory)

Brightness is unstable.

Aperture value is set while shutter button is pressed halfway. (Does not affect recorded picture.)

Monitor flickers indoors.

Monitor may flicker after turning on (prevents influence from fluorescent lighting).

Monitor is too bright/too dark.

Adjust ‘MONITOR’ setting (P.21).

Camera set to ‘LCD MODE’ (P.22).

Black/blue/red/green dots or interference appears. Monitor looks distorted when touched.

This is not a fault, and will not be recorded on the actual pictures, so there is no need to worry.

Date/age is not displayed.

Current date, ‘TRAVEL DATE’ (P.67), and ages in ‘BABY’ and ‘PET’ (P.55) scene modes are only displayed for approx. 5 sec. after start-up, setting changes, or mode changes. They cannot be always displayed.

Flash

No flash emitted.

Flash set to ‘FORCED FLASH OFF ’ (P.43).

When set to ‘AUTO ’, flash may not be emitted in certain conditions.

Flash cannot be emitted in the ‘SCENERY’, ‘PANORAMA ASSIST’, ‘NIGHT SCENERY’, ‘SUNSET’, ‘HI-SPEED BURST’, ‘FIREWORKS’, ‘STARRY SKY’, and ‘AERIAL PHOTO’ scene modes, or when using ‘AUTO BRACKET’ or ‘BURST’. No flash is emitted when recording a motion picture.

Multiple flashes are emitted.

Red-eye reduction is active (P.43). (Flashes twice to prevent eyes appearing red.) The scene mode is set to ‘FLASH BURST’.

Playback

Pictures have been rotated.

‘ROTATE DISP.’ is set to ‘ON’.

(Automatically rotates pictures from portrait to landscape. Some pictures taken facing up or facing down may be interpreted as being portrait.)

→Set ‘ROTATE DISP.’ to ‘OFF’.

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