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Step 2–Frame the Picture
1
Ready the camera
Hold the camera steadily in both hands. Photo-
graphs can be framed in the monitor.
Don’t Block the Shot
To avoid dark or partially obscured pictures, keep your
fingers and other objects away from the
lens
,
flash
window
,
AF-assist illuminator
,
microphone
, and
antenna
.
2
Frame your subject
Your Nikon digital camera is equipped with two
types of built-in zoom: optical zoom, in which the
camera’s telescoping lens can be used to magnify
the subject up to 3.5×, and digital zoom, in which
digital processing is used to further magnify the
image up to 4×, for a total of 14×. Use the zoom
buttons to frame your subject in the center of the
monitor:
• Press the
j
(
W
) button to zoom out from your
subject, increasing the area visible in the frame.
• Press the
k
(
T
) button to zoom in on your sub-
ject so that it fills a larger area of the frame.
To use digital zoom
When the camera is zoomed in to maximum mag-
nification, holding the
k
(
T
) button down for more
than two seconds will trigger digital zoom. The
zoom indicator will turn yellow. Use the
k
(
T
) and
j
(
W
) buttons to adjust zoom in the digital zoom
range. To cancel digital zoom, press
j
(
W
) until
the zoom indicator turns white.
