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Basic Camera Setup: The Setup Menu
Shooting, Playback and Setup Menus
h AF Assist
Enable or disable AF-assist illumination.
u Digital Zoom
Enable or disable digital zoom.
B Notes on Digital Zoom
• When using digital zoom, AF area mode is set to Center and cannot be changed (A 104).
• Digital zoom cannot be used in the following situations.
- When Scene auto selector, Portrait or Night portrait is selected for scene mode
- When smart portrait mode is selected
- When subject tracking mode is selected
- When Multi-shot 16 is selected (A 101)
- Before movie recording begins (digital zoom of up to 2× can be applied while movies are being
recorded)
• When using digital zoom, Metering is set to Center-weighted.
Press the d button M z (Setup menu) (A117) M h AF assist
Auto (default setting)
AF-assist illumination will be used to assist the focus operation when the subject is
poorly lit. The illuminator has a range of about 3.0 m (9 ft. 10 in.) at the maximum
wide-angle position and about 1.0 m (3 ft. 3 in.) at the maximum telephoto
position. However, note that for some scene modes, AF-assist illumination turns
off automatically (A38 to 44) even if Auto is set.
Off
Disable this function. The camera may be unable to focus if lighting is poor.
Press the d button M z (Setup menu) (A117) M u Digital zoom
On (default setting)
When the camera is zoomed in to the maximum optical zoom position, rotating
and hold the zoom control at g (i) triggers digital zoom (A 27).
Off
Digital zoom will not be activated (except when shooting a movie).