Zoom Type

The memory camcorder offers three types of zoom: optical, intelligent and digital zoom when recording videos.

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1.Press the MENU button Control joystick (/) “Zoom Type.”

2.Select the desired submenu item with the Control joystick (/), and then press the OK button.

3.Press the MENU button to exit the menu.

Submenu Items

items

contents

on-screen

display

 

 

“Optical Zoom”

Only optical zoom is available up to 52x.

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• The camcorder zooms the full width of the

 

“Intelli-Zoom”

image sensor to obtain a larger zoom range

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without any deterioration in image quality.

 

 

 

Intelli-zoom is available up to 65x.

 

 

• When this option is selected, the camcorder

 

 

will switch automatically to the digital zoom

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“Digital Zoom”

when you zoom in beyond the optical or

 

intelligent zoom range.

 

 

• Digital zoom is available up to 2200x.

 

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The right side of the bar shows the digital zooming zone. The zooming zone appears when you move the zoom lever.

With the digital zoom, the image is digitally processed more than the intelli or optical zoom modes. As a result, the image resolution may deteriorate.

The image quality may deteriorate depending on how much you zoom in on the subject.

Maximum zooming may result in lower image quality.

The zoom range will change depending on the aspect ratio of the video.

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Samsung SMX-F44SP/EDC manual Zoom Type, Without any deterioration in image quality, Intelli-zoom is available up to

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