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Recording Images and Videos
Taking Images
Now that you are familiar with your camera, you are now ready to take your
images. Taking images with your camera is very simple.
1.
Turn on the camera by pressing the
Power
button
.
2.
Frame the shot using the focus bracket on
the LCD monitor. See illustration on the right.
3.
Pressing the
Shutter button
down halfway
automatically focuses and adjusts the
exposure, and pressing the
Shutter button
down fully captures the images.
When the shake warning icon
appears, hold
the camera steadily, with your arms at your side
or use a tripod to stabilize the camera to prevent
blurred images.
Setting the Zoom Control
Using a combination of 12 times optical zoom and 8 times digital zoom permits
zoom photography at up to 96 times magnification. While the digital zoom can
be a useful feature, the more an image is enlarged (zoomed), the more
pixelated (grainier) the image will appear. Please refer to "Setting the Digital
Zoom" on page 53 on how to setup digital zoom.
To adjusts the optical zoom:
1.
Spin the
Zoom dial
to zoom in or zoom out an image.
2.
The zoom indicator appears on the LCD monitor.
Zoom dial
1.
Spin the dial clockwise (right) to zoom in.
2.
Spin the dial counterclockwise (left) to zoom out.
To adjusts the digital zoom:
1.
Activate digital zoom. See "Setting the Digital Zoom" on page 53.
2.
Spin the
Zoom dial
clockwise/counterclockwise to set digital zooms in/out
to the maximum until it stops.
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