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.

angle

 

 

 

 

 

 

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