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 one second will trigger digital zoom.The zoom indicator will turn yellow, and thegreen (AF) lamp next to the viewfinder willblink. Use the O (T) and l (W) buttons to ad-just zoom in the digital zoom range. To canceldigital zoom, press l (W) until the zoom in-dicator 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 (E5600 only).Zoom out Zoom in1010AUTOAUTO5M5M1010AUTOAUTO5M5MIndicator in monitor showsamount of zoom when ei-ther button is pressedDigital zoom2
