Panasonic Lumix DMC-LS70 Review

The playback screen with information display enabled. A key icon indicates that the image has been protected, and a musical note icon indicates that audio has been recorded (neither are shown above.) Upper right corner has the image size 7M, image quality Fine, battery level is low, folder name (103) and image number (0083), current image is 10 of 18 total images. The time and date is on the bottom status line.

Pressing the DISPLAY button will put the extended exposure information over the image and includes a histogram, the exposure mode, aperture, shutter speed, ISO speed and white balance mode.

Toggling the zoom lever to the Wide angle position brings up the thumbnail index mode display. You can bring up 9 or 25 images per page as well as the calendar display, allowing you to quickly sort though saved images.

Toggling the zoom lever to Telephoto allows you to enlarge the current image up to 16X in four steps. At any point you can use the 4-way selector to scroll around inside of the enlarged image.

Playback Menu options:

Slide Show - Auto playback of all images or just those selected for DPOF printing
Favorite - Add the image to favorite list
Rotate Display - Automatically rotate vertical images
Rotate - Manually rotates images
Date Stamp - Single image or Multi
DPOF Print - Select one or all images for later printing
Protect - Protect/Unprotect one or all images
Resize - Make a smaller image
Trimming - Create a new smaller image from a zoom-cropped larger image.
Copy - Copy image data between SD memory card and internal memory.
Format - Format the internal memory or SD card

The Resize option lets you "down size" larger images.

The Trim option lets you crop an image and save it as a smaller image.

Movies are played back fullscreen on the LCD or a television set when using the supplied video cable. Because there is not a built-in mircophone or speaker, there's no audio portion.

You get VCR like controls to pause, stop, fast forward and rewind.

Setup Menu (same in record or play mode):

Battery Type - Select Alkaline/NiMH or Oxyride for battery level indicator
Clock Set - Set the time and date
World Time - Choose World time settings
Monitor - Adjust LCD monitor brightness
Travel Date - Set a travel date
Auto Review - Auto review after capture (off, 1s, 3s, Zoom)
Power Save - Auto power off delay, 1m, 2m, 5m, 10m
Economy - Save battery power by turning LCD off automatically after 15 or 5 secs.
Beep - Camera beep sounds, Off, Soft or Loud
No. Reset - Reset file numbering counter
Reset - Reset all settings to factory default
Video Out - Video output signal format, NTSC or PAL
TV aspect - 4:3 or 16:9
Dial Display - On or Off
Language - Select the Menu language