Useful Features

Setting the Digital Zoom

You can select among three different zoom ranges: 1–16(optical zoom), 16–64(digital zoom) or 64–400(digital zoom). The digital zoom allows you to record powerful close-up pictures with the same operation as normal zooming.

Notes:

•The digital zoom is in addition to the optical zoom giving a combined maximum zoom range of 1–400.

•As the image is enlarged digitally, the picture quality decreases when higher digital zoom settings are used.

•The digital zoom cannot be used with the Digital Quick Zoom or the STRETCH or SLIM EFF. picture effects.

•A “D” appears in front of “ZOOM” when you push the Power Zoom control to the T (telephoto) side during the digital zoom.

Power Zoom

control

Digital zoom indicator

To return to optical zoom

Press the SET button to set the DGTL ZOOM menu item to “OFF” in step 2 above.

Useful Features

1 In Recording Standby mode, press the MENU button until (MENU 1) appears.

 

MENU

1

 

 

 

 

E X T E N D

2 X

DGT L Z OOM

O F F

D I S

O F F

DUAL / SNAP

DUAL

 

 

 

S E T

 

P I C -

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

TURE

 

PAGE

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

2 Press the or button (Q) to select “DGTL ZOOM”, then press the SET button (B) (W) to select “64” or “400”.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

MENU

1

 

 

 

 

 

 

S E T

 

 

 

 

E X T E N D

2X

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

DGT L Z OOM

 

64 X

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

D I S

 

OFF

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

6 4

4 0 0

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

3 Press the DISPLAY button to turn off the menu screen.

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VL-AH160U, VL-AH150U specifications

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