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ABOVE: I snapped this photo from a
tender that was speeding and bouncing toward the M/V Silver Whisper in
St. Peter Port, Guernsey.
Luckily, the FZ1's optical image stabilization prevented
camera shake from ruining the picture.
See unedited 1600 x 1200
image (322 Kb).
Proofing the pixels
When you’re traveling, it’s helpful to review your pictures at the end of the
day and eliminate photos that are bad, boring, or unneeded duplicates. This way,
you’re less likely to run out of space on your memory card at the exact moment
that a Buckingham Palace guard ends a centuries-old tradition by giving the
finger or blowing a kiss.
The FZ1 makes it easy to sort through your photos. Just turn the Mode dial on
top of the camera to the Playback symbol, and you can go through images one at a
time, view them as batches of thumbnails, zoom in on a section of an image, ad
even crop or resize images in the camera. Deleting images is equally
simple--just press the multifunction controller button to discard the current
picture, a group of images, or the entire contents of the memory card. (The
camera requires confirmation for deletions, making it nearly impossible to
delete an image by mistake.)
Later, when you’re ready to transfer images to your PC or Macintosh, simply
connect the camera to your computer’s USB port with the provided cable and use
the included software to move, manage, or edit the FZ1’s JPEG files.
Alternatively, you can buy an inexpensive SD card reader or adapter for your
computer and move the images with a file manager such as Windows Explorer.
(That’s what I did during our Silver Whisper cruise, because my aging laptop
didn’t have a USB port. The adapter plugged into a PC card slot on my IBM
ThinkPad, which then treated it as a second hard drive.)
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