Nikon D3300 Kit Owner's Manual

26 “Point-and-Shoot” Modes (

i and j)

Ready the camera.
When framing photographs in the viewfinder, hold the 
handgrip in your right hand and cradle the camera body or 
lens with your left.

When framing photographs in 
portrait (tall) orientation, hold the 
camera as shown at right.

A

Use the zoom ring to zoom in on the subject 
so that it fills a larger area of the frame, or 
zoom out to increase the area visible in the 
final photograph (select longer focal lengths 
on the lens focal length scale to zoom in, 
shorter focal lengths to zoom out). If the lens 
is equipped with a retractable lens barrel 
button (

0 17), press and hold the button 

while rotating the zoom ring until the lens is 
released and the message shown at right is 
no longer displayed, and then adjust zoom 
using the zoom ring.