Nikon Coolpix 8800 User Manual - Page 28

Basic Photography Step 2-Frame the Picture 1 Ready the camera Hold the camera steadily in both hands. Don't Block the Shot To avoid muffled sound or dark or partially obscured pictures, keep fingers and other objects away from the microphone, lens, built-in Speedlight, and AF-assist lamp (LED). Before shooting, check that vibration reduction (VR) is on. Vibration reduction reduces blurring caused by camera shake and stabilizes the view through the lens in the shooting display. 2 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 Zoom Zoom to 10 ×, and digital zoom, in which digital process- out in ing is used to further magnify the image up to 4 ×, for a total of 40 ×. Use the zoom buttons to frame your subject in the center of the monitor: • Press the button to zoom out from your sub- Indicator shows 8M amount of zoom 1/125 F5.6 15 ject, increasing the area visible in the frame. • Press the button to zoom in on your subject so that it fills a larger area of the frame. • When the camera is zoomed in to maximum Digital zoom magnification, holding the button down for Middle zoom Digita8lM position zoom 1/125 F5.6 15 about two seconds will trigger digital zoom, and the zoom indicator will turn yellow. Use the and buttons to adjust zoom in the digital zoom range. To cancel digital zoom, press Wide Telephoto until the zoom indicator turns white. angle 18