Nikon S202 manual Digital Zoom and Image Quality, Frame a Picture

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Digital Zoom and Image Quality

When the camera is zoomed in to the maximum optical zoom magnification, holding down g (i) triggers digital zoom. With digital zoom, you can magnify a subject up to 4× the maximum magnification of optical zoom (3×) for a total of up to 12× magnification.

Focus will be on the center of the screen (without active focus area display) when digital zoom is in effect.

Optical zoom	Digital zoom is
(up to 3×).	in effect.

Unlike optical zoom, digital zoom uses a digital imaging process known as interpolation to magnify images, resulting in slight deterioration of picture quality. The Vicon appears under the zoom indicator at the top of the monitor to mark the maximum zoom ratio possible before deterioration from digital zoom occurs.

When the zoom ratio exceeds Vtowards the telephoto side, the zoom indicator will turn yellow and picture quality will begin to deteriorate.

CMaximum zoom ratio without interpolation

The position of Vunder the zoom indicator moves closer to the telephoto side as the image size selected for image mode (A 75) gets smaller. Deterioration from digital zoom will not occur until the zoom ratio reaches the following levels for each mode.

When the zoom ratio reaches the following levels, zoom operations pause temporarily. If you continue to press g (i) and increase the zoom after this point, the images will start to get grainier.

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Image Mode	Zoom rate
S, R, P	3×
	(maximum optical zoom)

L3.6× (1.2 digital zoom)

Digital zoom can be turned off (A 101).

Image Mode Zoom rate

M4.2× (1.4 digital zoom)

N9× (3 digital zoom)

O12× (4 digital zoom)

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