Olympus C480 Zooming in on a distant subject

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Basic shooting functions

Zooming in on a distant subject

You can zoom in on your subject using the optical zoom and digital zoom. With the optical zoom, the image is enlarged on the CCD when the lens magnification is changed, and the image is formed by all the CCD pixels. With the digital zoom, the area at the center of the image captured by the CCD is cropped and enlarged. When you zoom in on a subject, you are essentially taking a small area of the picture and making it bigger.

Therefore, the greater the magnification with the digital zoom, the grainier the resulting picture will be.

The following zoom magnifications are available on this camera.

Optical zoom	3× (equivalent to 38 mm to 114 mm on a 35 mm
Optical zoom × digital zoom	camera)
	Max. 12×

Note that camera movement is likely to occur at higher magnifications.

1 Press the zoom button. Zoom button

Zoom out:

Press W on the zoom button.

Zoom in:

Press T on the zoom button.

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