Panasonic Dmc Fz50 Operating Instructions Manual

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Recording which day 
of the vacation you 
take the picture
If you set the departure date in advance, 
you can record which day of the vacation 
you take the picture.
• When you play back a picture, the date on 
which it was taken is displayed.
: The number of days that have passed 
since the departure date 
• The number of days that have passed 
since the departure date can be printed 
on each picture by using the software 
[LUMIX Simple Viewer] or 
[PHOTOfunSTUDIO-viewer-] in the...

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7Take a picture.
: The number of days that have passed 
since the departure date 
• The current date and time and which 
day of the vacation it is are displayed for 
about 5 seconds at the bottom of the 
screen if the camera is turned on when 
the travel date is set, after setting the 
clock, departure date or travel date, 
after changing the world time setting 
and after switching from playback mode 
to another mode.
• When [TRAVEL DATE] is set, [ ]“
appears on the lower right of...

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Displaying the time at 
the travel destination 
(World Time)
If you set your home area and the travel 
destination area when traveling abroad 
etc., the local time at the travel destination 
area can be displayed on the screen and 
recorded on the pictures taken.
• Select [CLOCK SET] to set the current 
date and time in advance. (P26) 
1Press [MENU/SET] and then 
press 
.
2Press  to select the [SETUP] 
menu icon [ ] and then press 
.
3Press / to select 
[WORLD TIME] and then...

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• If you are setting the home area for the 
second time etc., the screen returns to the 
screen shown in step 
3 after you press 
[MENU/SET] to set your home area. 
Press [MENU/SET] again to close the 
menu.
wSetting the travel destination area
(Perform steps 
1,2 and 3.)
Press  to select [DESTINATION] and 
then press [MENU/SET] to set.
: Depending on the setting, the time at 
the travel destination area or the 
home area is displayed.
• If you are setting the travel destination...

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_“GMT” is an abbreviation of “Greenwich Mean Time”.
Location candidates for World Time settings
Offset from 
GMTListed location name
-11 Midway Islands Samoa
-10 Hawaii Honolulu Tahiti
-9 Alaska Anchorage
-8 Vancouver Seattle Los Angeles
-7 Denver Phoenix
-6 Chicago Houston Mexico City
-5 Toronto New York Miami Lima
-4 Caracas Manaus La Paz
-3:30 Newfoundland
-3 Rio de Janeiro Sao Paulo Buenos Aires
-2Fernando de 
Noronha
-1 Azores
0 London Casablanca
+1 Berlin Paris Rome Madrid
+2...

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Motion Picture Mode
1Press the shutter button halfway 
to focus and then press it fully to 
start recording.
• When the subject is focused, the focus 
indication lights.
• The aperture value is fixed to the 
setting when recording starts (first 
frame).
• The available recording time  is 
displayed on the top right and the 
elapsed recording time  is displayed 
on the bottom right of the screen.
For example, 1 hour 20 minutes and 
30 seconds is displayed as 
[1h20m30s].
• The...

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• You can record smoother motion 
pictures with “30 fps”.
• You can record longer motion pictures 
with “10 fps” although the picture quality 
is lower.
• The file size with [10fpsQVGA] is small 
so it is suitable for e-mails.
6Press [MENU/SET] to close the 
menu.
• You can also press the shutter 
button halfway to close the menu.
•The focus range is 30 cm  (0.98 feet) 
[AF MACRO: 5 cm (0.16 feet)] (Wide)/
2 m (6.56 feet) (Tele) to 
c.
• Refer to P131 for information about the...

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Displaying Multiple 
Screens (Multi Playback)
1Rotate the front dial to the left to 
display multiple pictures.
(Screen when 9 screens are displayed)
1 screen9 screens
25 screensCalendar screen display
• After the multiple screens are 
displayed, rotate the front dial further 
towards the left to display 25 screens 
and the calendar screen (P79). Rotate 
the front dial towards the right to return 
to the previous screen.
• When you switch to multiple screens, a 
scroll bar ...

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Displaying pictures by 
recording date 
(Calendar playback)
You can display pictures by recording date 
using the calendar playback function.
1Rotate the front dial towards the 
left to display the calendar 
screen.
• The recording date of the picture 
selected in the playback screen 
becomes the date selected when the 
calendar screen is first displayed.
• If there are multiple pictures with the 
same recording date, the first picture 
recorded on that day is displayed.
• The...

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Using the Playback 
Zoom
1Rotate the front dial towards the 
right to enlarge the picture.
• When you rotate the front dial towards 
the left after the picture is enlarged, the 
magnification becomes lower. When 
you rotate the front dial towards the 
right, the magnification becomes 
higher.
• When you change the magnification, 
the zoom position indication  appears 
for about 1 second so that you can 
check the position of the enlarged 
section.
2Press to move the...