Nikon 8700 - Manual (Page 26)

Basic Photography
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Step 2 — Frame the Picture
1 Ready the camera
Hold the camera steadily in both hands.
Don’t Block the Shot
To avoid muffl ed sound or
dark or partially obscured
pictures, keep fi ngers and
other objects away from the
microphone, lens, and fl ash.
To avoid blocking the red-eye
reduction lamp, keep your fi ngers below the ridges
on the camera grip.
2 Frame the subject
The camera is equipped with two types of built-in
zoom: optical zoom, in which the camera’s tele-
scoping lens can be used to magnify the subject up
to 8 ×, and digital zoom, in which digital processing
is used to further magnify the image up to 4 ×, for a
total of 32 ×. Use the zoom buttons to frame your
subject in the center of the monitor:
• Press the button to zoom out from your sub-
ject, increasing the area visible in the frame.
• Press the button to zoom in on your subject so
that it fi lls a larger area of the frame.
• When the camera is zoomed in to maximum
magnifi cation, holding the button down for
about two seconds will trigger digital zoom, and
the zoom indicator will turn yellow. Use the
and buttons to adjust zoom in the digital
zoom range. To cancel digital zoom, press
until the zoom indicator turns white.
Avoid pressing buttons
on left side of camera
while shooting.
Indicator shows
amount of zoom
when either button
is pressed
F5.6 F5.6 F5.6 1/125 125 1/125 15 15 15
8M 8M 8M
Digital zoom
F5.6 F5.6 F5.6 1/125 125 1/125 15 15 15
8M 8M 8M
Zoom
out
Zoom
in