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Basic Camera Setup: The Setup Menu
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AF Assist
Enable or disable AF-assist illumination.
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Digital Zoom
Enable or disable digital zoom.
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Notes on Digital Zoom
•
When digital zoom is in effect, AF area mode is set to
Center
(
A
99).
•
Digital zoom cannot be used in the following situations.
- When
Scene auto selector
,
Portrait
or
Night portrait
is selected for scene mode
- When subject tracking mode is selected
- When smile mode is selected
- When
Multi-shot 16
is selected for
Continuous
(
A
95)
- Before movie recording begins (digital zoom of up to 2× can be applied while movies are being
recorded)
•
When digital zoom is in effect,
Metering
is set to
Center-weighted
.
Press the
d
button
M
z
(Setup menu) (
A
111)
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 3.0 m (9 ft. 10 in.) at the maximum
wide-angle position and about 1.5 m (4 ft. 11 in.) at the maximum telephoto
position. However, note that for some scene modes, AF-assist illumination turns off
automatically (
A
36 to 41) 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
111)
M
u
Digital zoom
On (default setting)
When the camera is zoomed in to the maximum optical zoom position, rotating
and hold the zoom control at
g
(
i
) triggers digital zoom (
A
25).
Off
Digital zoom will not be activated (except when shooting a movie).