Optical Zoom and Digital Zoom Switch Point

If you hold the zoom controller towards z (Telephoto), the zoom operation will stop when the optical zoom factor reaches its maximum. Momentarily releasing the zoom controller and then holding it again towards z (Telephoto) will switch to digital zoom, which you can use to set an even higher zoom factor.

• During zoom, a zoom bar on the monitor screen shows the current zoom setting.

 

Undeteriorated image

 

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10X to 62.4X

 

 

 

40X to 159.4X

Optical/digital zoom switch point

 

 

 

Zoom

 

 

pointer (Indicates current zoom.)

 

 

 

 

*10X optical zoom point

Image deterioration

An image deterioration icon (Ù) will appear on the monitor screen at the point where image deterioration starts.

The image deterioration point depends on the image size (page 33). 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 “8M” 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.

Image

Maximum

Undeteriorated

Size

Zoom Factor

zoom limit

12M

40X

10X

3:2

40X

10X

16:9

40X

10X

8M

49X

12.3X

5M

62.4X

15.6X

3M

78X

19.5X

VGA

159.4X

62.4X

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