Using the zoom function

This camera has a 12 x optical zoom function. Use the zoom lever, handle zoom lever or assign zoom functions to the FOCUS ring to perform zoom operations.

Zoom lever

•With the HANDLE ZOOM item in the setting menu SW&DISP SETUP screen, you can reset the speed allocated to the handle zoom switch (Factory default settings are 1: low-speed (L); 2: medium-speed (M); and 3 high-speed (H)).

Press the T side of the zoom lever to zoom in, or the W side to zoom out.

Zoom lever

Handle zoom lever

Press the T side of the handle zoom lever to zoom in, or the W side to zoom out.

The handle zoom lever speed can be switched between 3 levels with the handle zoom switch.

HANDLE ZOOM 1 2 3

On the remote control

Press the ZOOM/VOL buttons to zoom.

• Zoom speed is fixed at medium.

EXT

PHOTO

START/

STOP

DISPLAY

SHOT

 

DATE/

 

ZOOM

TIME

 

 

 

 

VOL

ZOOM/VOL buttons

 

 

SEARCH

PLAY

SEARCH

STILL ADV

PAUSE

STILL ADV

•To use the remote control, set the IR REMOTE item on the OTHER FUNCTIONS menu to ON. (Page 110 of Vol.2)

•When using a macro range and AF or MF on the focus control information display appears in reverse black and white, zooming may cause the image to become unfocused.

Digital zoom function

By setting D.ZOOM to any of the USER 1 - 3 buttons, you can use the camera’s digital zoom function. (Page 107 of Vol.2)

With each press of the USER button to which D.ZOOM has been allocated, the digital zoom ratio will be switched between OFF (x 1)→(x 2)→(x 5)→ (x 10)→OFF.

•The higher the zoom ratio setting, the poorer the image quality.

•For all settings other than OFF (x 1), the current zoom ratio will be displayed in the viewfinder.

•The digital zoom function can only be used with the following recording formats.

AVCHD mode : 1080/60i, 720/60P

DV mode: 480/60i

•The digital zoom function cannot be used in PHOTO mode.

•The digital zoom function cannot be used with interval recording.

Operations Basic

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