Panasonic AG-HMC80PJ Basic Operating Instructions - Page 39

Basic Operations Using the zoom function This camera has a 12 x optical zoom function. Use the zoom lever, handle zoom lever or assign zoom functions to the FOCUS ring to perform zoom operations. Zoom lever Press the T side of the zoom lever to zoom in, or the W side to zoom out. Zoom lever Handle zoom lever Press the T side of the handle zoom lever to zoom in, or the W side to zoom out. • With the HANDLE ZOOM item in the setting menu SW&DISP SETUP screen, you can reset the speed allocated to the handle zoom switch (Factory default settings are 1: low-speed (L); 2: medium-speed (M); and 3 high-speed (H)). On the remote control Press the ZOOM/VOL buttons to zoom. • Zoom speed is fixed at medium. START/ EXT PHOTO STOP DISPLAY SHOT DATE/ TIME ZOOM VOL ZOOM/VOL buttons SEARCH PLAY SEARCH STILL ADV PAUSE STILL ADV • To use the remote control, set the IR REMOTE SKIP STOP SKIP item on the OTHER FUNCTIONS menu to ON. (Page 110 of VMEoNlU.2) ENTER • When using a macro range and AF or MF on the focus control information display appears in reverse black and white, zooming may cause the image to become unfocused. The handle zoom lever speed can be switched between 3 levels with the handle zoom switch. HANDLE ZOOM 1 2 3 Digital zoom function By setting D.ZOOM to any of the USER 1 - 3 buttons, you can use the camera's digital zoom function. (Page 107 of Vol.2) With each press of the USER button to which D.ZOOM has been allocated, the digital zoom ratio will be switched between OFF (x 1)→(x 2)→(x 5)→ (x 10)→OFF. • The higher the zoom ratio setting, the poorer the image quality. • For all settings other than OFF (x 1), the current zoom ratio will be displayed in the viewfinder. • The digital zoom function can only be used with the following recording formats. AVCHD mode : 1080/60i, 720/60P DV mode: 480/60i • The digital zoom function cannot be used in PHOTO mode. • The digital zoom function cannot be used with interval recording. 39