Sony DSC-T500/B Cyber-shot® Handbook - Page 79

Settings For details on the operation 1 page 69 AF Mode Selects the auto focus operation mode. Single Automatically adjusts the focus when you press and hold the shutter button halfway down. This mode is useful for shooting stationary subjects. Monitor Automatically adjusts the focus before you press and hold the shutter button halfway down. This mode shortens the time needed for focusing. • Battery consumption is faster than in [Single] mode. • AF mode setting is invalid when the Face Detection function is activated. Digital Zoom Selects the digital zoom mode. The camera enlarges the image using optical zoom (up to 5×). When the zoom scale is exceeded, the camera uses either smart or precision digital zoom. Smart (Smart zoom) () Enlarges the image digitally within the range where the image will not be distorted, according to the image size. This is not available when the image size is set to [10M], [3:2(8M)] or [16:9(7M)]. • The total zoom scale of Smart zoom is shown in the following table. Precision (Precision digital zoom) () Enlarges all image sizes by the total zoom scale of approximately 10×, including the optical zoom 5×. However, note that the picture quality deteriorates when the optical zoom scale is exceeded. Off Does not use the digital zoom. Image size and total zoom scale using Smart zoom (including optical zoom 5×) Size 5M 3M VGA 16:9(2M) Total zoom scale Approx. 7.0× Approx. 8.9× Approx. 28× Approx. 9.5× Customizing the settings 79