Panasonic DMCZS8K Taking pictures with automatic settings, Take a picture, Intelligent Auto Mode

Basic shooting operation (Continued)

Taking pictures with automatic settings

[Intelligent Auto] Mode

Recording Mode:

ŶHolding the camera

AF Assist Lamp

Flash

•Stand with your arms close to your body and with your legs apart.

•Do not touch the lens.

•Do not block the microphone when recording motion picture. ( 8)

•Do not block the flash or the lamp. Do not look at it from close range.

•Make sure that the camera does not move at the moment the shutter button is pressed.

•We recommend the use of the hand strap to avoid dropping the camera.

Optimum settings are made automatically from information such as “face”, “movement”, “brightness”, and “distance” just by pointing the camera at the subject, meaning that clear pictures can be taken without the need to make settings manually.

Set to

Shutter button

Set to ([Intelligent Auto] Mode)

Take a picture

Mode dial

Press halfway	Press fully
(press lightly to focus)	(press the button all the
ŶAutomatic Scene Detection	way to record)

[Intelligent Auto] Mode

[Program AE] Mode

[Aperture-Priority] Mode

[Shutter-Priority] Mode

[Manual Exposure] Mode

[Custom] Mode

[Scene Mode]

[My Scene Mode]

[Motion Picture] Mode

Take pictures with automatic settings. (	27)
Record pictures with your own settings. (	30)

Determine aperture, then record pictures. ( 48)

Determine shutter speed, then record pictures. ( 49)

Determine aperture and shutter speed, then record pictures. ( 50)

Record pictures using pre-registered settings. ( 51)

Take pictures according to scene. ( 53)

Take pictures in frequently-used Scene Modes. ( 60)

Take motion pictures. ( 61)

Camera identifies the scene when pointed at the subject, and makes optimum settings automatically.

People are detected	People and night scenery are detected2
Baby is detected1	(Only when	is selected)
Scenery is detected	Night scenery is detected
A sunset is detected	A close-up shot is detected

Reads subject movement to avoid blurring when the scene does not correspond to any of the above.

1 When babies (under 3 years) that are registered with the Face Recognition function are recognized.

2 We recommend using a tripod and the self-timer.

If the camera automatically identifies the scene and determines that people appear as subjects in the picture (, , ), Face Detection is activated, and the focus and exposure are adjusted for the recognized faces.

ƔAccording to the following conditions, different scene types may be determined for the same subject:

Face contrast, conditions of subject (size, distance, coloring, contrast, movement), zoom ratio, sunset, sunrise, low brightness, jitter

ƔIf undesired scene type is selected, we recommend manually selecting the appropriate Recording Mode.

ƔWe recommend using a tripod and the self-timer with and .

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