Shooting Far Away Subjects (Infinity)

Using the Digital Tele-Converter

The focal length of the lens can be increased by 1.5x or 2.0x. This enables a faster shutter speed and less chance of camera shake than the zoom (including digital zoom) used by itself at the same zoom factor.

Choose [Digital Zoom].

zPress the nbutton to choose [Digital

Zoom] in the 4 tab, then press the qr buttons to choose an option.

XThe view will be enlarged and the zoom factor will appear on the screen.

• The respective focal lengths when using [1.5x] and [2.0x] are 42.0 – 336 mm and 56.0 – 448 mm (35mm film equivalent).

•A recording pixel setting (p. 59) of or will cause images to appear coarse (the zoom factor will appear in blue).

•The digital tele-converter cannot be used together with the digital zoom (p. 53).

•The digital-teleconverter can only be used with the 4:3 aspect ratio.

•The shutter speeds may be the same when at maximum telephoto i, and when zoomed in on the subject using Step 2 on p. 53.

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