Canon PowerShot SX610 HS Red Manual

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Moving the zoom lever will display the zoom bar (which indicates 
the zoom position). The color of the zoom bar will change 
depending on the zoom range.

 

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White range: optical zoom range where the image will not 
appear grainy.

 

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Yellow range: digital zoom range where the image is not 
noticeably grainy (ZoomPlus).

 

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Blue range: digital zoom range where the image will appear 
grainy.

 

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Because the blue range will not be available at some recording 
pixel settings (

achieved by following step 1.

 

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To deactivate digital zoom, choose MENU (

] tab > 

[Digital Zoom] > [Off].

The camera automatically zooms in and out to keep a detected face 
(

= 30) at a constant size. If the person moves closer, the camera 

automatically zooms out, and vice versa.

When distant subjects are too far away to enlarge using the optical zoom, 
use digital zoom for up to about 72x enlargement.

 

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Hold the lever until zooming stops.

 

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Zooming stops at the largest zoom factor 
before the image becomes noticeably 
grainy, which is then indicated on the 
screen.

 

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(1) is the current zoom factor.

 

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The camera zooms in even closer on the 
subject.

(1)