Using the Zoom

The zoom can be adjusted from 36 mm to 108 mm in 35 mm film equivalent terms.

Telephoto/Wide Angle1Press the zoom lever toward or

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• Press the zoom lever toward to zoom in (telephoto).

• Press the zoom lever toward to zoom out (wide angle).

Digital Zoom

When the LCD monitor is on, you can shoot with a combined optical and digital zoom up to approximately 12x with the PowerShot S500 DIGITAL ELPH/DIGITAL IXUS 500 and 11x with the PowerShot S410 DIGITAL ELPH/ DIGITAL IXUS 430 (p. 62).

The digital zoom is unavailable in some modes (p. 160).

Images become coarser the more they are digitally zoomed.

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