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Movies at the touch of a button! The practical Movie Button enables you to react spontaneously and always film the best scenes. With the camera switched on, a touch of a button is all it takes to start recording.

Simply practical: With Auto BEST SHOT, your EXILIM camera automatically selects the most suitable BEST SHOT mode and configures all the necessary settings for you - all you have to do is press the shutter. So you can enjoy the moment and focus your full attention on your subject.

EXILIM offers a simple solution to the problem of blurred or shaky photos: The new Auto Shutter function can automatically determine the perfect moment to take a photo.

It's so practical - your EXILIM with BEST SHOT motive programmes flexibly adjusts to fulfil a wide range of requirements. That's why it's so easy for you to create photos for online auctions: the "Auction" BEST SHOT motif programme enables you to take photos of your auction items in optimum picture size and quality and then post them online quickly and easily!

For people who want more: Recording movies and take photos at the same time - you don't need two cameras to do this. With EXILIM cameras, you can quite easily capture that unique moment or any hilarious sights in a photo while you're recording a movie.

Whether it's at a party, a Christmas celebration or outside in the winter twilight - when it's dark, we discover lots of exciting subjects. Unfortunately, when it's dark, it can often be difficult to judge the perfect moment to take a photo. The "Rapid Flash" serial shot function takes three photos with flash in the space of just one second.

YouTube™ Capture Mode: The YouTube™ Capture function enables easy sharing of Exilim Movies with people all around the globe - make the entire world your stage!

Your loved ones always clear and in focus: The face-recognition function can save up to 6 faces, which the camera can then recognize and bring into focus optimally when taking a photograph.

The simple touch: The face recognition function recognises individual faces or entire groups and automatically applies the optimum setting.

Action shots: If your subject can't or won't stay still, the Auto Tracking AF function is there to help you. Simply set the camera focus and, as soon as you're happy with the moving subject, press the release button in fully. Your photo will be perfectly in focus.

Serial photos: The practical serial shot function means you simply press and hold the button and take several photos one after the other - and then pick the best individual shots.

Capture even the tiniest details: The EXILIM EX-Z1200 with the Non Deterioration Zoom offers a gigantic 18.7 zoom. Look forward to a whole new world of opportunities in pocket format!

Nothing is going to stop the spring from coming, and nature is leaving a trail of blossoms and greenery everywhere you look. The BEST SHOT motif programme "Natural Green" lets you record nature's most beautiful experiences with rich colours and sharp contours.

Impress your friends with a show fit for the cinema: let your saved pictures run over the display or TV screen like a slide show. You can even add background music and effective animations.

Winter is a particularly attractive time of year when it comes to taking photos - but it also poses quite a challenge. Because surroundings are extremely bright, subjects often appear to be too dark.

Half pictures are a thing of the past. With Auto Framing, your subjects are always in focus.

Create collages without using a computer - one photo can show your friends everywhere you went on holiday or show-off your new car from a variety of different angles. Layout Shot creates fun photo collages while they are still in your camera.

Working on your films while they are still in the camera is easy. Part 2 of the Movie Editing Function lets you cut out an area between two images.

Edit films very simply whilst they are still in the camera. With the Movie Editing Function you cut your films before or after an individual frame.

Concentrate on the most important things! To reinforce the most beautiful part of a picture, decide on an area of the picture, enlarge it and simply cut it out with Trimming.

Refresh faded memories: Archiving photos from albums was long-winded and complicated in the past. With Revive Shot you simply give your old photos a new digital life.

Candles throw little light on your motifs. learn how to take attractive photos with a special lighting mood.

A day in the snow creates particular challenges for photographers: Since the surroundings are extremely bright, motifs often appear too dark.

You need the right setting to take photos of bright lights against dark surroundings - BEST SHOT has it.

Specifying the values to be preset when the camera is switched on
What happens to settings such as white balance and zoom position when you switch off your camera? They are lost, everything is returned to the initial setting. Unless you use the mode memory.

Shaky hands or moving motifs? Learn how to switch on the Anti Shake DSP for difficult photographs.

Simply set the quality in which your photographs are to be stored.

In how large a size do you want to store or print your pictures? Just set the right picture size.

For optimum lighting for every subject you can set the intensity of your flash quickly and easily.

The picture roulette runs through the pictures stored in the memory on the display - and then stops at random at one of them. Surprise yourself.

Taking professional photographs flexibly: You can use the manual exposure settings mode to set your own shutter speeds and apertures.

With the AE lock, you can save the exposure settings have automatically been created for one subject and use them for a different subject - so you can work whatever way you want to.

If you photograph visitor cards, documents, white boards or other similarly shaped objects from an angle, they can appear misshaped in the resulting image. It is exactly this type of distortion that Business Shot corrects.

When taking a flash photograph, the subject may not always be lit correctly. The flash assist can help you to improve such photos.

Atmospheric photos: Use the filter functions to change the tint of your pictures before taking them. Available settings are: B/W, Sepia, Red, Green, Blue, Yellow, Pink, Purple.

Make things easier for yourself: with three different metering modes, you can adjust your EXILIM perfectly for any shooting condition, and take better photos in the process!

Delete recordings and replace them with new ones: Based on "Adding sound to a snapshot", which is also explained in the EXILIM Tips & Tricks.

How can you give your pictures more life and atmosphere? Easy! Just add the correct sound. The photo remake combines the pictures you have saved with sound recordings in a few short steps.

A "key customization" feature enables you to assign your very own choice of camera settings to several keys. You no longer have to negotiate through several menus and you can save time.

It is not easy to assess lighting conditions in many situations. The histogram clearly displays the exposure conditions and helps to avoid over- and underexposures.

A nomal autofocus focusses on the centre of the picture. If your motive is not at the centre, what then? The focus lock helps.


The easy-to-handle focus aids, Auto Pan Focus and Panorama Focus mode, help in various situations, since they provide a quick release time. Photographing fast-moving objects is thus made simple.

Pre-Shot is a preview image. It always helps, if you have someone else take a photo of you and you would like to select the background yourself.


These instructions show you how to store the camera settings as BEST SHOT, so that you can always return to the same settings for the same situations - within seconds, and with only a few hand movements.

You can specify a photographic image for the start display, which always appears for two seconds on the monitor screen when you switch on the camera and the mode selectro is set to "REC".

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