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Taking pictures with your own settings
[NORMAL PICTURE] Mode
(Continued)
Recording Mode:
Taking pictures with zoom
Recording Mode:
Align focus for desired composition
Useful when subject is not in center of picture.
First adjust focus according to subject
Hold down
halfway
Align the AF
area with the
subject
AF area
Subjects/environments which may
make focusing difficult:
• Fast-moving or extremely bright objects,
or objects with no color contrast.
• Taking pictures through glass or near
objects emitting light. In dark, or with
significant jitter.
• When too close to object or when
taking pictures of both distant and close
objects together in the same picture.
We recommend using the ‘Face
Detection’ function when taking
pictures of people (56).
Return to desired composition
Press fully
AF area
The focus display flashes and beep sounds when focus is not aligned.
Use the focus range displayed in red as a reference.
Even if the focus display is lit, the camera may be unable to bring
the subject into focus if it is out of range.
AF area is displayed larger in dark conditions or when using Digital
Zoom.
Most displays are temporarily cleared from screen when the shutter
button is pressed halfway.
Focus range
Direction detection function
Still pictures taken with the camera held vertically are automatically played back vertically.
(Only when [ROTATE DISP.] is set to [ON])
Still pictures taken with the lens surface facing directly up or down and still pictures
taken on other cameras may not be rotated. Additionally, still pictures taken while
holding the camera upside down are not rotated automatically.
Motion pictures are not displayed vertically.
Zoom In/Out
Capture a wider
area (wide-angle)
Enlarge the subject
(telephoto)
W side (wide-angle):
1 x
T side (telephoto):
up to 4 x
Focus
range
Zoom ratio
(approx.)
Zoom bar
Adjust the focus after adjusting the zoom.
Optical Zoom and Extended Optical Zoom (EZ)
Automatically switches to ‘Optical Zoom’ when using maximum picture size (53), and
to ‘Extended Optical Zoom’ (for further zooming) otherwise. (EZ is short for ‘Extended
Optical Zoom’.)
• Optical Zoom
• Extended Optical Zoom
Zoom bar
(
displayed)
‘Optical Zoom’ offers 4 x magnification. At a lower recording pixel level, ‘Extended Optical
Zoom’ can be used to zoom up to 8.4 x (DMC-FP2) or 7.8 x (DMC-FP1). For zooming in
even closer, ‘Digital Zoom’ is available.
Maximum zoom ratios by picture size
DMC-FP2
Optical Zoom
Extended Optical Zoom
[PICTURE SIZE]
14 M - 10.5 M
10 M
5 M
3 M
or less
Max. enlargement
4 x
4.7 x
6.8 x
8.4 x
DMC-FP1
Optical Zoom
Extended Optical Zoom
[PICTURE SIZE]
12 M - 9 M
8 M
5 M
3
M
or less
Max. enlargement
4 x
4.9 x
6.3 x
7.8 x
Extended Optical Zoom system
When the recording pixel level is set to [3 M
] (corresponding to 3 million pixels), 3
million pixels of the available pixel level in the center of the CCD are used in recording,
enabling higher magnification.
The enlargement ratio displayed in the bar on screen is an estimate.
