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Taking pictures with zoom
Recording Mode:
Zoom In/Out
Capture a wider
area (wide-angle)
Enlarge the subject
(telephoto)
W side (wide-angle):
1 x
T side (telephoto):
up to 4 x
Focus range
Zoom ratio
(approx.)
Zoom bar
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Adjust the focus after adjusting the zoom.
Optical Zoom and Extended Optical Zoom (EZ)
Automatically switches to ‘Optical Zoom’ when using maximum picture size (→56), and
to ‘Extended Optical Zoom’ (for further zooming) otherwise. (EZ is short for ‘Extended
Optical Zoom’.)
• Optical Zoom • Extended Optical Zoom
Zoom bar
( displayed)
‘Optical Zoom’ offers 4 x magnification. At a lower recording pixel level, ‘Extended Optical
Zoom’ can be used to zoom up to 8.4 x. For zooming in even closer, ‘Digital Zoom’ is
available.
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Maximum zoom ratios by picture size
Optical Zoom Extended Optical Zoom
[PICTURE SIZE] 14 M - 10.5 M
10 M
5 M 3 M or less
Max. enlargement 4 x 4.7 x 6.8 x 8.4 x
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Extended Optical Zoom system
When the recording pixel level is set to [3 M ] (corresponding to 3 million pixels), 3
million pixels of the available pixel level in the center of the CCD are used in recording,
enabling higher magnification.
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The enlargement ratio displayed in the bar on screen is an estimate.
Enlarging further [DIGITAL ZOOM]
Zoom 4 times further than Optical/Extended Optical Zoom.
(Note that, with Digital Zoom, enlarging will lessen picture quality.)
Display [REC] menu (→15) Touch [ON]
Touch repeatedly until the desired item is
displayed.
Touch [DIGITAL ZOOM] Touch [EXIT]
Digital Zoom area is displayed within zoom bar on screen.
Digital Zoom area
16 x
e.g. With 16 x
• Zoom motion stops momentarily when entering
Digital Zoom range.
• Within Digital Zoom range, AF area is displayed
larger when the shutter button is pressed halfway.
• We recommend using a tripod and [SELFTIMER].
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A greater degree of distortion may be generated by taking wider-angled pictures of
close objects, while using more telescopic zoom may result in more coloring appearing
around the outlines of objects.
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The camera may make a rattling noise and vibrate when the zoom lever is operated –
this is not a fault.
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When Extended Optical Zoom is used, zooming momentarily stops partway, but this is
not a malfunction.
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Extended Optical Zoom cannot be used in the following cases:
[MACRO ZOOM], Motion Picture, [TRANSFORM], [HIGH SENS.], [HI-SPEED BURST],
[FLASH BURST], and [PHOTO FRAME] Scene Modes
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Digital Zoom cannot be used in the following modes:
• ([INTELLIGENT AUTO] Mode) • [TRANSFORM], [HIGH SENS.], [HI-SPEED
BURST], [FLASH BURST], [FILM GRAIN] and [PHOTO FRAME] Scene Modes