Leica 18461, 18115 manual Select the focal length, Step Zoom stop positions, Preparation

Taking pictures

Using the zoom lens

[Step Zoom]

You can set the zoom operation to allow easy visualization of the angle of view (picture angle) for the focal length of a regular fixed focal length lens (as with a 35mm film camera). When using the Step Zoom, you can operate the zoom ratio as easily as changing the camera lens.

Preparation:

Set [Step Zoom] for the [Rec] menu to [ON]. ••For the setting procedures of the menu. (→25)

Select the focal length

Every time you operate the zoom lever, zooming will stop at the indicated focal lengths.

To widen the angle	To make subjects
of view, use shorter
	appear closer use
focal lengths
	longer focal lengths
(hence wideangle,
	(telephoto, also
also makes
	narrows
subjects appear
	the angle of view)
further away)

Current zoom position

(The indicated focal lengths are not the actual ones, but rather the equivalent ones for the 35mm format)

■■[Step Zoom] stop positions

24mm, 28mm, 35mm, 50mm, 70mm, and 90mm

••In addition to the above focal lengths, the zoom will stop at the following positions when a setting other than Optical Zoom is set.

135mm, 200mm, 300mm, 400mm, 500mm, 600mm, the focal length at max. Tele, and so on.

●●The focal length values are only approximations. ●●The focal length will change in the following cases:

••When the aspect ratio is 1:1 ••When [Burst Shooting] is set to [   ]

••When [Handheld Night Shot] is set in Scene mode ●●[Step Zoom] cannot be used in the following cases:

••With [Snapshot Mode]

••When recording motion pictures

●●The focal length is displayed during playback for pictures recorded using the [Step Zoom].

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