Picture Quality - Panasonic HDC-SD20 Operating Instructions Manual

Focus indication:
A Focus indication
± (The white lamp flashes.):
Focusing
¥ (The green lamp lights up.):
When in focus
No mark:
When focusing is unsuccessful.
B Focus area (area inside brackets)
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Press the
≥ In order to take better still
pictures, the screen will brighten
when the button is fully
pressed.
≥ The sound cannot be recorded while recording
still pictures.
≥ The edges of still pictures recorded on this unit
with a 16:9 aspect ratio may be cut at printing.
Check the printer or photo studio before
printing.
∫ About the screen indications
when the
2.1
M
ß: Flash (l 67)
Flash level (l 67)
ßj:
: Red eye reduction (l 68)
: Quality of still pictures
: Size of still pictures
2.1
M
R3000: Remaining number of still pictures
(Flashes in red when [0] appears.)
: Still picture operation indicator
(l 127)
: MEGA optical image stabilizer
MEGA
(l 54)
button fully.
button is pressed
R3000 R3000 R3000
MEGA
∫ About the focus indication
≥ The focus indication indicates the status of the
auto focus.
≥ The focus indication will not be displayed in the
following conditions.
jWhen the manual focus is used.
jWhen the colour night view function is used.
≥ You can record still pictures even if the focus
indication does not appear, but pictures may
be recorded without being focused.
∫ About the focusing area
When there is a contrasting object ahead or
behind the subject in the focus area, the subject
may not be focused. If so, move the contrasting
object out of the focus area.
≥ Focus area is not displayed in the following
conditions.
jWhen the intelligent auto (portrait mode) is
used.
jWhen the digital zoom (more than approx.
16k) is used.
jWhen AF tracking is used.

Picture quality

Selecting the picture quality.
Select the menu. (l 29)
[PICTURE] # [QUALITY] # desired setting
: Still pictures with a high picture quality
are recorded.
: Priority is given to the number of still
pictures recorded. Still pictures are
recorded in normal picture quality.
≥ If the [QUALITY] is set to
noise may appear on a playback image
depending on the picture content.
, mosaic-pattern
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