α Handbook
Table Of Contents
- Table of contents
- Introduction of functions
- Before use
- Functions list
- Preparing the camera
- Shooting and viewing images
- Selecting a shooting mode
- Switching the recording information display
- Adjusting the focus
- Adjusting the brightness of the image
- Using the drive mode
- Advanced shooting
- Using the flash (sold separately)
- Flash modes available
- Flash Compensation
- Flash control
- FEL lock
- Setting ISO
- Compensating for the brightness and contrast automatically (D-Range)
- Setting the image processing
- Adjusting the color tones (White balance)
- Setting image size
- Setting the aspect ratio and image quality
- Detecting faces
- Smile Shutter
- Zooming
- Reducing the noise in an image
- Setting the color space
- Movie recording setup
- Advanced playback
- Setup of the camera
- Viewing images on a computer
- Troubleshooting/Others
- Index
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Advanced shooting
Zooming
You can magnify images with a higher scale than the optical zoom.
You can zoom in to the center of an image using the smart teleconverter
and record the image.
The image size is as follows, based on the zoom scaling.
Notes
• The smart teleconverter is unavailable
– When the exposure mode is set to Sweep Panorama.
– [Quality] is set to [RAW] or [RAW & JPEG].
• If [Focus Magnifier] or [Zoom] has been assigned, change the setting back to [Smart
Telecon.] (pages 103, 147).
• When the smart teleconverter is available, [Metering Mode] is set to [Multi
segment].
• You cannot use the smart teleconverter function with movies.
The Clear Image Zoom feature allows the camera to zoom in holding the
current resolution of the image.
You can scale up the zoom by using the Smart Zoom or Digital Zoom
feature.
Zooming in in one step (Smart teleconverter)
Press the button.
• Each time you press the button, the
zoom scaling changes as follows:
Approx. ×1.4 t Approx. ×2 t Off
button
Zoom scaling Image size
Approx. ×1.4 M or S
Approx. ×2 S
Zooming in holding the current resolution of the image
(Clear Image Zoom)