■Optical Zoom and Digital Zoom Switch Point
If you hold down the [ 
] side of the zoom button in step 2 of the above procedure, the zoom operation will stop when the optical zoom factor reaches its maximum. Momentarily releasing the zoom button and then holding down its [ ] side will switch
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to digital zoom, which you can use to set an even higher zoom factor.
•When the zoom pointer moves past the maximum limit of optical zoom. Also, the zoom bar indicates the approximate zoom factor.
Digital Zoom Indicator
1X | 3X to 14.2X |
Optical/Digital Switch Point
Image Deterioration Point
Image starts to deteriorate from here. (Point factor depends on image size.)
12X to 42.6X
Zoom Pointer (Indicates current zoom.)
Focus Range (Displayed when shooting with Auto Focus, macro, or manual focus.)
Zoom Bar
•The image deterioration point depends on the image size (page 68). The smaller the image size, the higher the zoom factor you can use before reaching the image deterioration point. Though digital zoom generally causes a deterioration of image quality, some digital zoom without image deterioration is possible with image sizes of “5M (2560 × 1920 pixels)” and smaller. The range in which you can use digital zoom without image deterioration is indicated on the display. The deterioration point depends on the image size.
•The digital zoom range of the zoom indicator is shown on the monitor screen only while “Digital Zoom” is turned on.
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