User's Guide

DIGITAL ZOOM [REC MODE]
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DIGITAL ZOOM [REC MODE]
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In REC mode, press the digital
zoom button.
• When the digital zoom button is pressed, the
LCD monitor automatically turns on.
• The currently set zoom magnification appears
in the upper-right corner of the LCD monitor
(see page 29).
• The digital zoom feature will be disabled
when the HALF image size (see pages 54 -
55) is selected.
Press the or button until
the desired magnification is
displayed in the LCD monitor.
• The zoom magnification will change as
follows:
X2.0
X1.4
X1.0
• The zoom magnification change is visible in
the LCD monitor.
Press the shutter-release button
all-the-way down to take picture.
• The digital zoom still remains after the picture
is taken.
• The digital zoom will return to X1.0 when you
turn the camera off and turn it on again.
• The larger the zoom magnification is, the
smaller is the file size of the captured image.
Press the digital zoom button.
• If you want to change the zoom
magnification, repeat steps 2 and 3.
• The viewfinder image does not change. Use
the LCD monitor to compose your picture.
The digital zoom will increase the magnification of the live image on the LCD monitor
and recorded image up to two times of the normal screen.
REC
0.0
X 1.0
27
LCD Monitor
(Live View)
REC
0.0
X 2.0
27
LCD Monitor
(Live View)
Magnification Trimmed area (Displayed area), W X H
X 1.4 1280 X 856 pixels
X 2.0 896 X 600 pixels
Images recorded from the digitally magnified area are trimmed in the horizontal
and vertical directions shown below and are not interpolated to 1792 x 1200
pixels.