Recording options

ZOOM TYPE

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

Select the Record (

/

) mode by pressing the MODE button.

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1.

Press the MENU button Control

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(Left/Right) button “Zoom

 

Type.”

Zoom Type

 

 

Optical Zoom

2.

Select the desired submenu item

Intelli-Zoom

Digital Zoom

with the Control (Up/Down)

button, and then press the OK

Exit

 

button.

 

Submenu Items

 

 

On-

Items

Use

screen

 

 

display

Optical

To use optical zoom, up to 52x.

-

Zoom

 

 

 

 

 

 

• The camcorder zooms the full width of the

 

Intelli-

image sensor to obtain a larger zoom range

-

Zoom

without any deterioration in image quality.

 

 

Intelli-zoom is available up to 65x.

 

 

• When this option is selected, the camcorder will

 

Digital

switch automatically to the digital zoom if you

 

zoom in beyond the optical or intelligent zoom

-

Zoom

range.

 

 

 

 

• Digital zoom is available up to 2200x.

 

3.Press the MENU button to exit the menu.

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Zoom Type

Optical Zoom

Intelli-Zoom

Digital Zoom

Exit

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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