Step 2 - Frame the Picture

1 Ready the camera

Hold the camera steadily in both hands. Photo- graphs can be framed in the monitor or the view- finder.

Don't Block the Shot

To avoid dark or partially obscured pictures, keep your fingers and other objects away from the lens, flash window and microphone (E3200 only).

Zoom out

Zoom in

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Indicator in monitor shows amount of zoom when ei- ther button is pressed

Basic Photography

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Digital zoom

2 Frame your subject

Your Nikon digital camera is equipped with two types of built-in zoom: optical zoom, in which the camera's telescoping lens can be used to magnify the subject up to 3 ×, and digital zoom, in which digital processing is used to further magnify the image up to 4 ×, for a total of 12 ×. Use the zoom buttons to frame your subject in the center of the monitor:

Press the l (W) button to zoom out from your subject, increasing the area visible in the frame.

Press the O(T) button to zoom in on your sub- ject so that it fills a larger area of the frame.

When the camera is zoomed in to maximum magnification, holding the O (T) button down for about one second will trigger digital zoom. The zoom indicator will turn yellow, and the green (AF) lamp next to the viewfinder will blink. Use the O(T) and l(W) buttons to ad- just zoom in the digital zoom range. To cancel digital zoom, press l (W) until the zoom in- dicator turns white.

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Nikon 3200 2200 manual Frame the Picture, Ready the camera, Frame your subject, Dont Block the Shot