Operating Instructions

Detailed guide / Record mode / 127
4. Activate the digital zoom function by pressing
right on the direction pad.
The option currently set is marked in yellow.
5. Press the MENU button again to save your
setting and to exit the menu system.
The original monitor screen appears again.
Zooming itself, and taking the pictures, is done in
exactly the same way as described in the previous
section (Using the optical zoom”. However, the
zoom scale in the monitor is extended to the right
with a digital zoom area marked in blue. The
corresponding symbol
i also appears next to it
when you change the focal length.
Notes:
The digital zoom function is only available when
the monitor screen is turned on.
The additional digital zoom range cannot be
controlled in the optical viewfinder.
The digital zoom function is not available for video
recordings.
The digital zoom function works by reducing the
area of the sensor used. It therefore reduces the
resolution and the image quality.
Using AUTO mode
For fast, fully automatic photography. In this
mode, all of the important settings for the photo-
graph are made automatically: When you press
the shutter release, both all of the exposure set-
tings – shutter speed and aperture or use of flash
– and the focus – by autofocus – are controlled
automatically.
Setting and using the mode:
1. Insert a memory card (see p. 118).
2. Turn on the camera (see p. 119).
3. Set the Record/review selector (1.14) to Single
exposures
ü (see p. 124).
4. Set the exposure mode dial (1.15) to AUTO.
5. When using the optical viewfinder (1.22):
Aim at your subject with the cross hairs
(autofocus metering field) and press the
shutter release (1.11) to its pressure point.
As soon as the focus is set, the green LED
(1.21) flashes once as confirmation.
When using the LCD monitor (1.32):
Aim at your subject with the rectangle (autofocus
metering field, 3.17/18) and press the shutter
release to its pressure point.
As soon as the focus is set, the
; (3.27)
appears as confirmation.
If your main subject is to be off-center, and
cannot be detected by the autofocus metering
field, you should use the Exposure/focus value
memory-lock function (see p. 139).