22Basic Photography and Playback: Auto ModeStep 2 Frame a Picture1 Ready the camera.Hold the camera steadily in both hands, keeping yourfingers and other objects away from the lens, flash andspeaker.Place the flash upwards when shooting images in “tall”(portrait) orientation.2 Frame the picture.When the camera recognizes a face (front view), that facewill be framed by a yellow double border (by default). Ifmore than one face is recognized, the face nearest to thecamera will be framed by a double border and the rest bya single border.AF area will not appear when shooting non-human subjects or when no faces are recognized.Using the ZoomUse the zoom buttons to activate optical zoom.Press f (h) to zoom out, increasing the area visiblein the frame, or g (i) to zoom in so that the subject fillsa larger area of the frame.A zoom indicator is displayed at the top of the monitorwhen the zoom buttons are pressed.262626Zoom out Zoom inOpticalzoomDigitalzoom
