18Basic PhotographyStep 2 - Frame the PictureReady the cameraHold the camera steadily in both hands. Photo-graphs can be framed in the monitor or theviewfinder.Frame your subjectYour Nikon digital camera is equipped with twotypes of built-in zoom: optical zoom, in which thecamera’s telescoping lens can be used to magnify thesubject up to 3 ×, and digital zoom, in which digitalprocessing is used to further magnify the image upto 4 ×, for a total of 12 ×. Use the zoom buttons toframe your subject in the center of the monitor:• Press the l (W) button to zoom out fromyour subject, increasing the area visible in theframe.• Press the O (T) button to zoom in on your sub-ject so that it fills a larger area of the frame.• When the camera is zoomed in to maximummagnification, holding the O (T) button downfor about two seconds will trigger digitalzoom. The zoom indicator will turn yellow,and the green (AF) lamp next to the viewfinderwill blink. Use the O (T) and l (W) buttonsto adjust zoom in the digital zoom range. Tocancel digital zoom, press l (W) until thezoom indicator turns white.1Don’t Block the ShotTo avoid dark or partially obscured pictures, keepyour fingers and other objects away from thelens, flash window and microphone.Zoom out Zoom in77AUTOAUTO7M7M77AUTOAUTO7M7MIndicator in monitor showsamount of zoom when ei-ther button is pressedDigital zoom2
