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Step 2 – Frame the picture
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Basic Photography
Frame your subject.
•Frame your subject in the center of the
monitor.
Use the zoom buttons.
• Your Nikon digital camera is equipped
with an optical zoom. The camera’s zoom
lens can be used to magnify the subject
up to 3x.
• Press the
W
button to zoom out, increas-
ing the area visible in the frame.
• Press the
T
button to zoom in on your
subject so that it fills a larger area of the
frame.
• At the maximum optical zoom position,
holding the
T
button down for about two
seconds triggers the digital zoom. The digital
zoom magnifies the subject up to a further
4x, for a total of 12x. The zoom indicator
turns yellow in the digital zoom range.
• To cancel digital zoom, press the
W
but-
ton until the zoom indicator turns white.
Digital Zoom
• In digital zoom, data from the camera’s image sensor are processed digitally, en-
larging the center portion of the picture to fill the frame. Unlike the optical
zoom, the digital zoom does not increase the amount of detail visible in the pic-
ture. Instead, details visible at maximum optical zoom are enlarged, producing
a slightly “grainy” image.
• In digital zoom, the center focus area is used and the autofocus indicator
()
in the monitor lights green/flashes red instead of the focus area indicator when
the shutter-release button is pressed halfway
( 35).
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Zoom out
Zoom in
Indicator in monitor shows
amount of zoom when ei-
ther button is pressed.
Digital zoom
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