Zooming: Optical, Advanced And Digital Zoom - Canon FS40 Instruction Manual

Approximate recording times
Recording mode →
Memory ↓
4 GB memory card
Built-in memory/
8 GB memory card
16 GB memory card
32 GB memory card
• When a recording exceeds 2 GB or 12 continuous hours, it will be divided and
saved as scenes smaller than 2 GB.
• At the time of purchase, the built-in memory contains about 70 MB of
music files.

Zooming: Optical, Advanced and Digital Zoom

The camcorder offers the following three types of zoom:
Zoom Type Description and use
Optical 37x The optical magnification ratio of the lens. Used for recording movies
only when
Advanced 41x The camcorder processes the image beyond the range of the optical
zoom to obtain a larger zoom without any deterioration in image
quality. Used for recording movies in all cases but the two exceptions
above.
Digital 2000x* You can activate it with the
[
to digital zoom (light blue area on the zoom indicator) when you zoom
in beyond the optical zoom range (white area on the zoom indicator).
With the digital zoom, the image is processed digitally so image
quality will deteriorate the more you zoom in.
* 1800x when
Operating modes:
40
Video
55 min.
1 hr. 50 min.
3 hr. 40 min.
7 hr. 25 min.
[Image Stabilizer] is set to [
[Widescreen] is set to [
On] and only while recording movies, the camcorder will switch
[Image Stabilizer] is set to [
XP SP
1 hr. 20 min.
2 hr. 45 min.
5 hr. 30 min.
11 hr.
Off] and for recording photos.
[Digital Zoom] setting. When set to
Dynamic].
Default value
LP
2 hr. 35 min.
5 hr. 10 min.
10 hr. 25 min.
20 hr. 50 min.
Dynamic] or when