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Step 2 — Frame the Picture, Don't Block the Shot, Digital Zoom

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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, flash, and AF-assist lamp. 2 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 3 ×, and digital zoom, in which digital processing is used to further magnify the image up to 4 ×, for a total of 12 ×. Use the zoom buttons to frame your subject in the center of the monitor: • Press the button to zoom out from your subject, 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 magnification, holding the button down for over a second 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 until the zoom indicator turns white. Zoom Zoom out 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. 15

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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, flash, and AF-assist lamp.
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
to 3 ×, and digital zoom, in which digital processing
is used to further magnify the image up to 4 ×, for a
total of 12 ×.
Use the
zoom buttons to frame your
subject in the center of the monitor:
• Press the
button to zoom out from your sub-
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
magnification, holding the
button down for
over a second 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
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