Sony Handgcam CCD-FX425 Operation Manual page 16

You can create a professional-looking home video using these sepcial effects; zoom,
close-up, fade-in and fade-out.
Zooming is a recording technique that lets you change the size of the subject in the scene.
Use "Zoom-in (telephoto)" for dramatic close-ups, and "zoom-out (wide-angle)" for
panoramic long shots. You can also use zooming to focus manually or to decide on a
shooting angle. For more professional-looking recordings, use zooming sparingly.
W(Wide-angle) T(Telephoto)
To zoom
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Telephoto
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The camcorder's power zoom button offers two-level speed zooming. Press it firmly for
high speed zooming and softly, for relatively slow zooming.
Press the T side of the power zoom button for telephoto (subject appears closer) and the
W side for wide-angle (subject appears farther away).
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Note
Even small subjects such as flowers, insects, and images in photographs, can literally fill
the screen using focus in macro.
1 Bring the camcorder as close as necessary to obtain the desired subject size.
2 Press the W side of the power zoom button until the indicator in the viewfinder
stops at the W end.
You can shoot a subject that is at least 1 3 m (about 39/e iches) away from lens surface in the telephoto
position.
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Basic Camera Operation