REC Mode/Recording Techniques
- Q35
- What are the zoom factor ranges for optical zoom and digital zoom?
- A35
- Your camera provides you with 12.5X optical zoom (that changes the lens focal distance), which can be used in combination with digital zoom (that digitally processes the center portion of the image to enlarge it) for total zoom capabilities of 12.5X to 159.5X(VGA size).
* Digital zoom is divided between two zones: a zone in which there is no coarsening of the image (HD Zoom) and a zone in which digital zoom causes coarsening of the image. The zoom operation will pause at the point where zoom crosses over from the HD Zoom zone and enters the zone in which coarsening of the image occurs. Remember that zooming past this point will cause deterioration of image quality.