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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
144).
•
Digital zoom is not available in the following situations:
- When the focus mode (
37) is set to
E
(manual focus)
- When
b
Portrait
,
e
Night portrait
is selected in scene mode
- When
Image quality
(
124) is set to
NRW (RAW)
,
NRW (RAW) + Fine
,
NRW (RAW) +
Normal
or
NRW (RAW) + Basic
- When
Multi-shot 16
is selected for
Continuous
- When
On
is selected for
Wide-angle converter
- Before movie recording begins (however, digital zoom of up to 2× can be applied while movies,
other than time-lapse movies, are being recorded)
•
At magnifications of 1.2× to 1.8×,
Metering
is set to
Center-weighted
, and at magnifications of
2.0× to 4.0×, to
Spot
.
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 5.5 m (18 ft.) at the maximum wide-
angle position and about 3.2 m (10 ft.) at the maximum telephoto position.
However, note that for some scene modes, AF-assist illumination turns off
automatically (
42 to 47) even if
Auto
is set.
Off
Disable this function. The camera may be unable to focus if lighting is poor.
On (default setting)
Rotating and holding the zoom control at
g
(
i
), at the maximum optical zoom
position, triggers digital zoom (
27).
Crop
Limit digital zoom to the range at which image quality does not suffer.
Off
Disable digital zoom except when recording movies.