Panasonic DMC-FP3 Taking pictures with zoom, Zoom In/Out, Maximum zoom ratios by picture size

Taking pictures with zoom

Recording Mode:

‘Optical Zoom’ offers 4 x magnification. At a lower recording pixel level, ‘Extended Optical Zoom’ can be used to zoom up to 8.4 x. For zooming in even closer, ‘Digital Zoom’ is available.

Zoom In/Out

Capture a wider	Enlarge the subject
area (wide-angle)	(telephoto)
W side (wide-angle): T side (telephoto):
1 x	up to 4 x

Focus range

Zoom ratio

(approx.)

Zoom bar

●Adjust the focus after adjusting the zoom.

Optical Zoom and Extended Optical Zoom (EZ)

Automatically switches to ‘Optical Zoom’ when using maximum picture size (→56), and to ‘Extended Optical Zoom’ (for further zooming) otherwise. (EZ is short for ‘Extended Optical Zoom’.)

• Optical Zoom		• Extended Optical Zoom
	Zoom bar		( displayed)

●Maximum zoom ratios by picture size

	Optical Zoom		Extended Optical Zoom
[PICTURE SIZE]	14 M - 10.5 M	10 M		5 M	3 M or less
Max. enlargement	4 x	4.7 x		6.8 x	8.4 x

●Extended Optical Zoom system

When the recording pixel level is set to [3 M ] (corresponding to 3 million pixels), 3 million pixels of the available pixel level in the center of the CCD are used in recording, enabling higher magnification.

●The enlargement ratio displayed in the bar on screen is an estimate.

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