Taking pictures with zoom
Recording Mode: 
“Optical Zoom” offers 4 x magnification. You can zoom in even closer without the loss of picture quality by lowering the picture size and using “Extra Optical Zoom.”
For zooming in even closer, “Digital Zoom” (→50) is available.
Zoom In/Out
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Zoom bar
●Focus after adjusting the zoom.
Taking motion pictures
[Motion Picture] Mode
Recording Mode: 
Display the screen for Recording
Mode selection
Select [Motion Picture] Mode
Start recording
Optical Zoom and Extra Optical Zoom (EZ)
Automatically switches to “Optical Zoom” when using maximum Picture Size (→46), and to “Extra Optical Zoom” (for further zooming) otherwise. (EZ is short for “Extra Optical Zoom”.)
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Microphone
Remaining recording time (approx.)
Elapsed recording time
Press halfway | Press fully |
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•Immediately release the shutter button after pressing it all the way.
•The focus and zoom will remain as they were at the beginning of recording.
End recording
Press fully
●Extra 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 centre of the CCD are used in recording, enabling higher magnification.
●The zoom ratio and the zoom bar displayed on the screen are estimates. ●Extra Optical Zoom cannot be used in the following cases:
Motion Picture, [High Sens.] in Scene Mode
●Depending on the type of card used, a
●In [AF Mode], 
●When there is no space left to store the motion picture, recording automatically ends. Additionally, recording in progress may be stopped, depending on the card used.
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