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Indicator in monitor shows amount of zoom when ei- ther button is pressed.
Digital zoom
Digital Zoom
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Frame your subject.
•Frame your subject in the center of the monitor.
Use the zoom buttons.
• Your Nikon digital camera is equipped with an optical zoom. The camera’s zoom lens can be used to magnify the subject up to 3x.
• Press the W button to zoom out, increas- 3 ing the area visible in the frame.
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•In digital zoom, data from the camera’s image sensor are processed digitally, en- larging the center portion of the picture to fill the frame. Unlike the optical zoom, the digital zoom does not increase the amount of detail visible in the pic- ture. Instead, details visible at maximum optical zoom are enlarged, producing a slightly “grainy” image.
•In digital zoom, the center focus area is used and the autofocus indicator ( 
) in the monitor lights green/flashes red instead of the focus area indicator when the 
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