Operating instructions

Preparation
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Battery life
The number of recordable pictures (By CIPA standard in Normal Picture Mode [
1
])
Batteries Used Number of recordable pictures (Approx.)
Panasonic Alkaline batteries
(supplied or optional)
270 pictures (135 min)
Fully charged Panasonic Ni-MH
batteries (optional)
550 pictures (275 min)
Recording conditions by CIPA standard
• Temperature: 23 °C/Humidity: 50% when the LCD monitor is on
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1
.
• Using a Panasonic SD Memory Card (32 MB)
• Starting recording 30 seconds after the camera is turned on. (When the optical image
stabilizer function is set to [AUTO])
• Recording once every 30 seconds, with full ash every second recording.
• Rotating the zoom lever from Tele to Wide or vice versa in every recording.
• Turning the camera off every 10 recordings. Leaving the camera until the batteries cool
down.
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1
The number of recordable pictures decreases when the Auto Power LCD, Power LCD
or High Angle Mode is used (P26).
• CIPA is an abbreviation of [Camera & Imaging Products Association].
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