Nikon COOLPIX8800 manual Frame the Picture, Don’t Block the Shot, away from the microphone

Step 2—Frame the Picture
			Ready the camera
			1 Hold the camera steadily in both hands.
			Don’t Block the Shot
			To avoid muffled sound or dark
			or partially obscured pictures,
			keep fingers and other objects
			away from the microphone,
			lens, built-in Speedlight, and
Basic			AF-assist lamp (LED).
			Before shooting, check that vibration reduction (VR)
Photography			is on. Vibration reduction reduces blurring caused
			by camera shake and stabilizes the view through
			the lens in the shooting display.
			Frame the subject
			2 The camera is equipped with two types of built-in
			zoom: optical zoom, in which the camera’s tele-
			scoping lens can be used to magnify the subject up
Zoom	Zoom		to 10 ×, and digital zoom, in which digital process-
out		in	ing is used to further magnify the image up to 4 ×,
			for a total of 40 ×. Use the zoom buttons to frame
			your subject in the center of the monitor:
			• Press the		button to zoom out from your sub-
Indicator shows			ject, increasing the area visible in the frame.
			• Press the		button to zoom in on your subject so
amount of zoom
			that it fills a larger area of the frame.
			• When the camera is zoomed in to maximum
Digital zoom			magnification, holding the			button down for
Middle zoom		Digital	about two seconds will trigger digital zoom, and
			the zoom indicator will turn yellow. Use the
position		zoom
			and	buttons to adjust		zoom in the digital
			zoom range. To cancel digital zoom, press
Wide	Telephoto		until the zoom indicator turns white.
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