Praktica Digital camera 16 MPix Optical zoom: 24 x Black 256117 User Manual

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If you hold the zoom controller towards 

 (Telephoto), the zoom operation will stop 

when the optical zoom factor reaches its maximum. Momentarily releasing the zoom 
controller and then holding it again towards 

 (Telephoto) will switch to digital zoom, 

which you can use to set an even higher zoom factor.

• During zoom, a zoom bar on the monitor screen shows the current zoom setting.

• The image deterioration point 

depends on the image size (page 
32). The smaller the image size, 
the higher the zoom factor you 
can use before reaching the 
image deterioration point.

• Though digital zoom generally 

causes a deterioration of image 
quality, some digital zoom 
without image deterioration is 
possible with image sizes of 
“10M” and smaller. The range in 
which you can use digital zoom 
without image deterioration is 
indicated on the display. The 
deterioration point depends on 
the image size.

Zoom bar

Focusing range
(Displayed for Auto Focus, Macro Focus, and Manual 
Focus.)

24X to 172.8X

Undeteriorated image 

quality range

1X

24X to 382.6X

Zoom pointer (Indicates current zoom.)

Image deterioration

Optical/digital zoom switch point

*

24X optical zoom point

Deteriorated image 

quality range

24.0X

24.0X

24.0X

24.0X

24.0X

24.0X

121.2X

30.2X

172.8X

43.2X

215.5X

54.0X

382.6X

172.8X