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Recording Images and Videos
Taking Images
Now that you are familiar with your camera, you are 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 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 54 on how to setup digital zoom.
To adjust the optical zoom:
1.
Spin the
Zoom dial
to zoom in or zoom out of 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.
