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Advanced Settings (M-REC): Extra Functions
Extra Functions
The COOLPIX 900’s extra functions menu offers both digital
effects and pre-programmed settings for the optional fish-eye
and wide-angle lens adapters. The digital effects available are
digital zoom, autoexposure lock, and VGA and/or grayscale
recording. A menu of options can be viewed by highlighting
EXTRA FUNC
in the shooting menu and pressing the shut-
ter button. Options currently selected are marked by an “X” in
the box to the left of the item.
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The items available in the extra functions menu are described
below.
VGA SHOT
When this option is selected and the selector dial is set to
M-REC, photographs will be recorded at a resolution of 640
×
480 pixels, one-quarter the camera’s usual resolution of
1,280
×
960 pixels. This results in images which require only
one quarter the usual amount of memory to store, although
with a corresponding loss of detail. In VGA mode, the
image-quality indicator in the control panel will blink and the
color LCD monitor will show a VGA mark.
While the camera is in VGA mode, the drive setting
CON-
TINUOUS
can not be selected (see “
Continuous (Digital
Motor Drive)
,” above). If digital zoom is chosen, either by
selecting
DIGITAL TELE
from the extra functions menu
or by pressing the zoom-in switch until 2
×
digital zoom is
activated, the camera will record pictures in an area in the
center of the frame half the usual height and breadth of the
area usually recorded and will store the resulting image as a
photograph 640
×
480 pixels in size.
BLACK&WHITE
This option is used to create monochrome (grayscale)
photographs. While this option is selected, any photographs
taken in M-REC mode will be stored as grayscale images and
the color LCD monitor will show the view through the
camera’s lens in black-and-white.