Using Zoom (Wide-Angle And Telephoto) - Contax I4R User Manual

Introduction

Using Zoom (Wide-angle and Telephoto)

«Applicable mode: C/M»
Use zoom to take pictures when you are at events such as sports meets or
school plays where you want to zoom in on a distant subject, or when you
want to compose a wide-angle shot of distant scenery.
• 4-way button right a : Enlarges the image.
• 4-way button left b
This camera features a digital zoom that enlarges the image digitally. You
can enlarge a still image by up to 6x or a movie by up to 2x.
A Important
Using the digital zoom degrades the image quality.
1
Press the 4-way button right before
shooting.
A zoom bar is displayed on the bottom of the screen. The indicator in
the zoom bar moves right as you zoom in and left as you zoom out.
The zoom bar remains on the screen for approximately 2 seconds.
This camera can zoom from x1.3 to x6.0 in 13 steps. (Digital Zoom)
When shooting still images, the range of magnification available using
digital zoom depends on the image size (
When shooting movies, the magnification is not related to the number of
pixels, and the maximum zoom is x2.0.
Image Size
2272 x 1704
1600 x 1200
1280 x 960
640 x 480
Contents Glossary
Getting Ready Taking Pictures
: Returns the zoomed image to its original size.
Available digital zoom
magnification
up to 4.0x
up to 5.0x
up to 6.0x
up to 6.0x
Index
Playback
p.75), as shown below.
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Nomenclature
Set Up
Indicator Digital zoom bar
X5 . 3 X5 . 3 5 . 3
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