Optical Zoom and Digital Zoom Switch Point
If you hold the zoom controller towards 
(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 
(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.
Focusing range
(Displayed for Auto Focus, Macro Focus, and Manual Focus.)
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1X | 12.5X to 84.4X |
50.0X to 159.5X
Optical/digital zoom switch point
*12.5X optical zoom point
•The photo deterioration point depends on the photo size (page 34). The smaller the photo size, the higher the zoom factor you can use before reaching the photo deterioration point.
•Though digital zoom generally causes a deterioration of photo quality, some digital zoom without photo deterioration is possible with image sizes of “10M” and smaller. The range in which you can use digital zoom without photo deterioration is indicated on the display. The deterioration point depends on the photo size.
Zoom pointer (Indicates current zoom.)
Image deterioration
Image | Maximum | Undeteriorated |
Size | Zoom Factor | zoom limit |
16M | 50.0X | 12.5X |
3:2 | 50.0X | 12.5X |
16:9 | 50.0X | 12.5X |
10M | 59.3X | 14.8X |
6M | 76.6X | 19.1X |
3M | 105.4X | 26.4X |
VGA | 159.5X | 84.4X |
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