You can create a professional-looking home video using these sepcial effects; zoom,
close-up, fade-in and fade-out.
Zooming is arecording technique that lets you change the sizeof the subject in the scene.
Use "Zoom-in (telephoto)" for dramatic close-ups, and "zoom-out (wide-angle)" for
panoramic long shots. You can also usezooming to focus manually or to decide ona
shooting angle. For moreprofessional-looking recordings, use zooming sparingly.
To zoom
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ph°t°The camcorder's power zoom button offers two-level speed zooming. Press it firmly for
high speed zooming and softly, for relatively slow zooming.
Press the T sideof the power zoom button fortelephoto (subject appears closer) and the
Wside forwide-angle (subject appears farther away).
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Even small subjects such as flowers, insects, andimages in photographs, can literally fill
the screen using focus inmacro.
1 Bring the camcorder as close as necessary to obtain the desired subject size.
2 Press the W side of the power zoom button until the indicator in the viewfinder
stops at the W end.
Note You can shoot asubject thatis at least 1 m (about 393/8 iches)away from lens surface in the telephoto
position.
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