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 “Extended 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.
Optical Zoom and Extended Optical Zoom (EZ)
Automatically switches to “Optical Zoom” when using maximum Picture Size (→46), and to “Extended Optical Zoom” (for further zooming) otherwise. (EZ is short for “Extended Optical Zoom”.)
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●Extended Optical Zoom system
When the recording pixel level is set to [3 M 
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●The zoom ratio and the zoom bar displayed on the screen are estimates. ●Extended Optical Zoom cannot be used in the following cases:
Motion Picture, [High Sens.] in Scene Mode
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