Taking a closer look: playback zoom, Creating a cropped copy – Nikon COOLPIX S6 User Manual

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Taking a Closer Look: Playback Zoom

Pressing the zoom control to T during full-frame play-
back zooms the current picture in 3 ×, with the center
of the picture displayed in the monitor (Quick Playback
Zoom). The following operations can be performed
while pictures are zoomed in:

Press

Zoom in (maximum 10 ×)

T ( )

—

Zoom out

W (

)

—

View other areas of picture

—

Delete picture

Exit to full-frame playback

View mode menu

View playback menu

Create cropped copy (see below)

Shutter button —

Exit to shooting mode

—

Creating a Cropped Copy

If a

icon is displayed in the monitor during play-

back zoom, the portion of the picture currently visible
in the monitor can be saved to a separate ﬁ le. Pressing
the shutter-release button displays the dialog shown
at right; highlight Yes and press the button to cre-
ate a new picture containing only the area visible in
the monitor.

Cropped copies are stored as JPEG ﬁ les with a compression ratio of 1 : 8. Depending
on the size of the original and the zoom ratio at the time the copy was created, cop-
ies will be 2,592 Ч 1,944 ( ), 2,048 Ч 1,536 ( ), 1,600 Ч 1,200 ( ), 1,280 Ч 960 ( ),
1,024 Ч 768 ( ), 640 Ч 480 ( ), 320 Ч 240 ( ), or 160 × 120 ( ) pixels in size.

Save this image

as displayed?

Save this image
as displayed?

Confirm

Yes

Cropped Copies

See the Appendix for more information on cropped copies (

103).

Auto Power oﬀ (Stand-by Mode)

At default settings, the monitor will turn oﬀ if no operations are performed for about a minute
during playback (stand-by mode;

88). The camera will turn oﬀ automatically if no opera-

tions are performed for another three minutes.

Playback zoom display.

Note that “tall” orientation

pictures are displayed in
“wide” orientation when

zoomed in. Select T once

to display picture in “wide”

orientation, again to zoom

picture in 3 ×.

Scroll

Zoom