HP p650 HP p650 Digital Camera - User Manual - Page 41

Optical Zoom and Digital Zoom Switch Point If you hold the zoom controller towards (Telephoto), the zoom operation will stop when the optical zoom factor reaches its maximum. Momentarily releasing the zoom controller and then holding it again towards (Telephoto) will switch to digital zoom, which you can use to set an even higher zoom factor. • During zoom, a zoom bar on the monitor screen shows the current zoom setting. Focusing range (Displayed for Auto Focus, Macro Focus, and Manual Focus.) Zoom bar Undeteriorated image quality range Deteriorated image quality range 1X 24X to 172.8X 24X to 382.6X Optical/digital zoom switch point * 24X optical zoom point Zoom pointer (Indicates current zoom.) Image deterioration • The image deterioration point depends on the image size (page 32). The smaller the image size, the higher the zoom factor you can use before reaching the image deterioration point. • Though digital zoom generally causes a deterioration of image quality, some digital zoom without image deterioration is possible with image sizes of "10M" and smaller. The range in which you can use digital zoom without image deterioration is indicated on the display. The deterioration point depends on the image size. Image Size 16M 3:2 16:9 10M 5M 3M VGA Maximum Zoom Factor 24.0X 24.0X 24.0X 121.2X 172.8X 215.5X 382.6X Undeteriorated zoom limit 24.0X 24.0X 24.0X 30.2X 43.2X 54.0X 172.8X 40