Using Focus Assist; Setting The Aperture And Gain - Panasonic AG-HMC80PJ Operating Instructions Manual

Shooting in manual mode (continued)

Using focus assist

Pressing the FOCUS ASSIST button enlarges the
center of the viewfinder, or displays a bar at the
bottom center of the screen. These displays make
aligning the focus easier and are particularly useful
in manual focus mode. The display that appears
when the FOCUS ASSIST button is pressed can
be configured with the FOCUS ASSIST SW item
in the setting menu SW&DISP SETUP screen.
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FOCUS ASSIST button
EXPANDED:
The central part of the screen will be enlarged by
a factor of about 4 in the vertical direction and by a
factor of about 6 in the horizontal direction.
A blue box will appear in the viewfinder screen
during expanded display. Only the operation status
display and counter will appear on the screen.
BAR:
A bar will appear at the bottom center of the
viewfinder screen, indicating the level of focus
alignment with its length.
The peak hold mark (▼) appears over the bar, and
the bar expands to the right as focus is aligned.
Focus not aligned
BOTH:
Displays both the expanded display and focus bar.
• This function cannot be used while the digital
zoom function is in use.
• Press the FOCUS ASSIST button again to return
to the original screen.
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Bar expands to right
as focus is aligned

Setting the aperture and gain

IRIS dial
1
Use the AUTO/MANUAL switch to set to
manual mode. (Page 5)
2
Press the IRIS dial to switch the method of
adjustment for the aperture of the lens.
The method switches to AUTO IRIS or
MANUAL IRIS with each press of the dial.
AUTO IRIS: Adjust the iris automatically.
MANUAL IRIS: Adjust the iris manually.
3
Turn the IRIS dial to adjust the aperture of
lens when in the manual iris mode.
• In the auto iris mode, the lens iris can be
corrected using this dial.
• Increase in brightness beyond the maximum
aperture (OPEN) is performed via gain
adjustment (CAMERA mode: 0 to 4 dB;
PHOTO mode: 0 to 18 dB).
• If further gain adjustment is necessary, assign
HIGH GAIN to one of the USER buttons 1 to
3. The gain mode switches between normal
and high with each press of the button.
Gain can be set to up to 34 dB in high gain mode.
In PHOTO mode, switching to high gain
mode is disabled.
• Set the direction of the IRIS DIAL and aperture
control in the setup menus, SW&DISP SETUP
screen, IRIS DIAL.
• The lens aperture can be adjusted in the focus
ring by setting the RING switch to IRIS. The
default setting for this item is ZOOM, so set
the RING SW item to IRIS in the setting menu
SW&DISP SETUP screen. The relationship
between the direction of rotation and aperture
control is based on the IRIS DIAL setting in the
SW&DISP SETUP screen. However, as this
will make it impossible to adjust the focus in the
focus ring, please set the focus control method
to AF (auto focus) with the FOCUS switch. Zoom
control can also be assigned to the FOCUS ring.
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