BASIC IMAGE RECORDING
Digital Zoom
Digital zoom digitally enlarges the part of the image at the center of the image screen. The range of digital zoom is 3X to 12X (in combination with optical zoom).
IMPORTANT! 
•When you perform a digital zoom operation, the camera manipulates the image data to enlarge the center of the image. Unlike optical zoom, an image enlarged with digital zoom appears coarser than the original.
•Digital zoom is not supported while date stamping (“Date” or “Date&Time”) is turned on (page 122).
■To record an image using digital zoom
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•This causes the zoom indicator to appear on the display.
Zoom indicator
2.When the zoom pointer reaches the optical/ digital zoom switch over point, it will stop.
Digital
Optical Zoom range 
Zoom range
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Zoom pointer
Optical/digital zoom switch over point
•The above shows what the zoom indicator looks like when digital zoom is turned on (page 62). The digital zoom range is not displayed when digital zoom is turned off.
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