[Quality] - Panasonic LumixDMC-FZ45 Operating Instructions Manual

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"EZ" is an abbreviation of "Extra Optical Zoom".
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A digital picture is made of numerous dots called pixels. The
higher the numbers of pixels, the finer the picture will be
when it is printed on a large piece of paper or displayed on a
PC monitor.
A Many pixels (Fine)
B Few pixels (Rough)
¢ These pictures are examples to show the effect.
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If you change the aspect ratio, set the picture size again.
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The Extra Optical Zoom does not work when Macro Zoom is set or in [HIGH SENS.],
[HI-SPEED BURST], [FLASH BURST] and [PHOTO FRAME] in Scene Mode so the picture
size for [ ] is not displayed.
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You cannot set [PICTURE SIZE] when [QUALITY] is set to [
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Pictures may appear mosaic depending on the subject and the recording conditions.
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Refer to P214 for information about the number of recordable pictures.
For details on [REC] mode menu settings, refer to P27.
Set the compression rate at which the pictures are to be stored.
Applicable modes:
[A]: Fine (when giving priority to the picture quality)
[›]: Standard (when using the standard picture quality and increasing the number of
pictures to be recorded without changing the number of pixels)
[ ]: RAWiFine (In addition to the [RAW] settings, a fine-equivalent JPEG image is
simultaneously created.)
[ ]: RAWiStandard (In addition to the [RAW] settings, a standard-equivalent JPEG
image is simultaneously created.)
[ ]: RAW file (When the image is to be edited with a PC in high quality)
¢1 If you delete a RAW file from the camera, the corresponding JPEG image will also be
deleted.
¢2 It is fixed to maximum recordable pixels for each image aspect ratio.
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Refer to P214 for information about the number of recordable pictures.
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You can enjoy more advanced picture editing if you use RAW files. You can save RAW files in a
file format (JPEG, TIFF etc.) that can be displayed on your PC etc., develop them and edit them
using the software "SILKYPIX Developer Studio" by Ichikawa Soft Laboratory on the CD-ROM
(supplied).
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[ ] images are recorded with a smaller data volume than [
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[PRINT SET] and [FAVORITE] cannot be set to a picture taken by [
Advanced (Recording pictures)

[QUALITY]

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