User Guide

Shooting

You can shoot zoomed images using the combined digital and

optical zooms. The focal lengths (35 mm film equivalent) and

characteristics are as follows.

Using the Digital Zoom

Shooting Mode

Option Focal Length Characteristics

38 – 360 mm

You can shoot at a maximum zoom

factor of approximately 10x using a

combination of the optical and digital

zoom features.

Off

38 – 90 mm Shoots without using the digital zoom.

The digital zoom cannot be used in the or (Postcard

mode) or the (Widescreen) mode.

(Rec.) Menu [Digital Zoom] [On]*/[Off].

See Menus and Settings (p. 23).

*Default setting.

Press the button and shoot.

zThe combined optical and digital

zoom factor will appear on the LCD

monitor.

zBased on the number of recording

pixels set, the Safety Zoom feature

calculates the maximum zoom fac-

tor beyond which image quality will

begin to deteriorate. The digital zoom pauses at this zoom

factor for a moment, and appears on the LCD monitor.

If you press the button again, you can zoom in even

closer. In this case, the displayed zoom factor changes from

white to blue.

zPressing the button zooms out.