Olympus SP-550UZ SP-550UZ Instruction Manual (English) - Page 26

FINE ZOOM Zooming in on your subject without reducing image quality OFF /ON This function allows you to zoom up to 27x by combining the optical zoom and image cropping. • [IMAGE QUALITY] is limited to below [2048x1536]. DIGITAL ZOOM Zooming in on your subject OFF /ON The digital zoom can be used to take close-up pictures with stronger magnification than the optical zoom. Optical zoom Digital zoom Maximum magnification: Still picture shooting modes Optical zoom × digital zoom: Approx. 100x (max.) Movie shooting mode Optical zoom × digital zoom: Approx. 54x (max.) Zoom bar White area: The optical zoom area Red area: The digital zoom area AF MODE Changing the focusing area iESP SPOT The camera determines which subject within the screen to focus on. Even when the subject is not in the center of the screen, focusing is possible. Focus selection is based on the subject within the AF target mark. AREA Move the AF target mark to select the area you want to focus on to take a picture. • If [FINE ZOOM] or [DIGITAL ZOOM] is set to [ON], [AREA] cannot be set. When [AREA] is selected • To move the AF target mark Press the arrow pad (the AF target mark is displayed in green). You can take pictures while in this status. • To set the position of the AF target mark Hold down o. To change the position of the mark, hold down o again. Menu operations 26 EN