User's Manual

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Basic Camera Setup: The Setup Menu
Shooting, Playback and Setup Menus
h AF Assist
Enable or disable AF-assist illumination.
u Digital Zoom
Adjust settings for using digital zoom.
B Notes on Digital Zoom
• When digital zoom is in effect, AF area mode is set to Center (A 101).
• Digital zoom cannot be used in the following situations.
- When Scene auto selector, Portrait, or Night portrait is selected in scene mode
- When smart portrait mode is selected
- When Multi-shot 16 (A 98) is selected
- Just before recording a movie (Up to 2× zoom can be activated while recording movies)
Press the d button M z (Setup menu) (A 113) M h AF assist
Auto (default setting)
AF-assist illumination will be used to assist the focus operation when the subject is
poorly lit. The illuminator has a range of about 1.9 m (6 ft. 3 in.) at the maximum
wide-angle position and about 1.1 m (3 ft. 7 in.) at the maximum telephoto
position. However, note that for some scene modes, AF-assist illumination turns
off automatically (A 34 to 40) even if Auto is set.
Off
Disable this function. The camera may be unable to focus if lighting is poor.
Press the d button M z (Setup menu) (A 113) M u Digital zoom
On (default setting)
When the camera is zoomed in to the maximum optical zoom position, rotating the
zoom control to g (i) triggers digital zoom (A 23).
Off
Digital zoom will not be activated (except when shooting a movie).