26Taking Pictures in Auto ModeBasic Photography1 Ready the cameraHold the camera steadily in both hands.Photographs can be framed in the monitorA or the viewfinder B .Don’t Block the ShotTo avoid dark or partially obscured pictures,keep fingers and other objects away fromthe lens and flash window.BA2 Frame the subjectThe camera is equipped with two types ofbuilt-in zoom: optical zoom, in which thecamera’s telescoping lens can be used tomagnify the subject up to 4 ×, and digitalzoom, in which digital processing is used tofurther magnify the image up to 4 ×, for a totalof 16 ×. Use the zoom buttons to frame yoursubject in the center of the monitor:• Press the button to zoom out from thesubject, increasing the area visible in theframe.• Press the button to zoom in on thesubject so that it fills a larger area of theframe.• When the camera is zoomed in to maxi-mum magnification, holding the buttondown for about two seconds will triggerdigital zoom. The zoom indicator will turnyellow, and the green (AF) lamp next to theviewfinder will blink. Use the andbuttons to adjust zoom in the digital zoomrange. To cancel digital zoom, pressuntil the zoom indicator turns white.Zoom inZoom outStep 2 — Frame the PictureIndicator in monitor showsamount of zoom when ei-ther button is pressedDigital zoom
