Digital Zoom; Shooting With The Digital Zoom - Canon PowerShot S5 IS User Manual

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(Rec.) Menu
[Standard]
* Default setting.
When using [Standard]
See Shooting With the Digital Zoom
(p. 41).
When using [1.6x] or [2.0x]
See Shooting With the Digital Tele-Converter (p. 42).

Shooting With the Digital Zoom

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Press the zoom lever toward
The combined digital and optical zoom setting will display in
the LCD monitor.
Based on the number of recording pixels set, the Safety
Zoom feature calculates the maximum zoom factor beyond
which image quality will begin to deteriorate. The digital
zoom pauses at this zoom factor for a moment, and
appears on the LCD monitor.
If you press the zoom lever toward
in even closer.
In this case, the color of the zoom bar means as follows:
- White: optical zoom
- Yellow: digital zoom (non-deteriorative)
- Blue: digital zoom (deteriorative)
Press the zoom lever toward
Optical zoom (White)

[Digital Zoom]

*
/[Off]/[1.6x]/[2.0x].
See Menus and Settings (p. 27).
Digital zoom (Blue)
Approximately
2 seconds later
and shoot.
again, you can zoom
to zoom out.
Combined optical and
digital zoom
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