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Digital Zoom, Frame the subject

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Basic Photography 3 Frame the subject The camera is equipped with two types of built-in zoom: optical zoom, in which the camera's telescoping lens can be used to magnify the subject up to 10 ×, and digital zoom, in which digital processing is used to further magnify the image up to 4 ×, for a total of 40 ×. Use the zoom control to frame your subject in the center of the monitor: • T: zoom in on your subject so that it fills a larger area of the frame. • W: zoom out from your subject, increasing the area visible in the frame. • When the camera is zoomed in to maximum magnification, holding the control in the T position for about two seconds will trigger digital zoom, and the zoom indicator will turn yellow. Use the zoom control to adjust zoom in the digital zoom range. To cancel digital zoom, zoom out until the zoom indicator turns white. Zoom out Zoom in Indicator shows amount of zoom AUTO 10 Digital zoom AUTO 10 Digital Zoom In digital zoom, data from the camera's image sensor are processed digitally, enlarging the center portion of the picture to fill the frame. Unlike optical zoom, digital zoom does not increase the amount of detail visible in the picture. Instead, details visible at maximum optical zoom are simply enlarged, producing a slightly "grainy" image. 14

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Basic Photography
3
Frame the subject
The camera is equipped with two types of built-in
zoom: optical zoom, in which the camera’s tele-
scoping lens can be used to magnify the subject up
to 10 ×, and digital zoom, in which digital process-
ing is used to further magnify the image up to 4 ×,
for a total of 40 ×.
Use the
zoom control to frame
your subject in the center of the monitor:
•
T
: zoom in on your subject so that it fills a larger
area of the frame.
•
W
: zoom out from your subject, increasing the
area visible in the frame.
• When the camera is zoomed in to maximum
magnification, holding the control in the
T
po-
sition for about two seconds will trigger digital
zoom, and the zoom indicator will turn yellow.
Use the zoom control to adjust zoom in the digi-
tal zoom range.
To cancel digital zoom, zoom
out
until the zoom indicator turns white.
Digital Zoom
In digital zoom, data from the camera’s image sensor are processed digi-
tally, enlarging the center portion of the picture to fill the frame.
Unlike
optical zoom, digital zoom does not increase the amount of detail visible
in the picture.
Instead, details visible at maximum optical zoom are simply
enlarged, producing a slightly “grainy” image.
Indicator shows
amount of zoom
Zoom
out
Zoom
in
Digital zoom