Application (Record)

Useful features for travel

[Travel Date]

••For [Setup] menu setting procedures (→54)

If you set your travel schedule and record pictures, the day of your trip on which the picture was taken will be recorded.

Select [Travel Date] from the [Setup] menu (→54)

Use cursor button to select [Travel Setup] and press [MENU/SET]

Use cursor button to select [SET] and press [MENU/SET]

Use cursor button to select the departure date and press [MENU/SET]

Use cursor button to select the return date and press [MENU/SET]

■■To record [Location]

Once the [Travel Setup] is set, you can set the location.

Select [Location] in step above

Use cursor button to select [SET] and press [MENU/SET]

Enter your location (Entering text (→114))

●●The travel date is calculated from the set departure date and the date set in the camera’s clock. When destination is set in [World Time], days elapsed are calculated based on local destination time.

●●When [Travel Setup] is set to [OFF], the number of days elapsed is not recorded. It is not displayed even if [Travel Setup] is set to [SET] after recording.

●●If settings are made before departure date, number of days to departure are not recorded.

●●[Location] is recorded separately from the location name information which is recorded on the pictures by the GPS function. DMC-ZS30

●●To print [Location] or the number of days that have passed, either use [Text Stamp] or print using the “PHOTOfunSTUDIO” software on the supplied disc.

●●[Travel Date] cannot be recorded for AVCHD motion pictures. (Except [  ]) DMC-ZS30 ●●[Travel Date] cannot be recorded for AVCHD motion pictures. DMC-ZS27

●●Cannot be set when using [Intelligent Auto] Mode. The settings in other Recording Mode are applied.

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DMC-ZS30, DMC-ZS27 specifications

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