Toshiba Gigashot A Series - Manual (Page 51)

Owner’s Manual 29
Hard Disk Camera GSC-A100FE/GSC-A40FE
Shooting with the Zoom
Depending on the distance to your subject, you can use the 10× optical
zoom or combine the optical zoom and digital zoom (
p.80) to magnify
the image by up to 20× or 80×.
1. Zoom in or out.
Look at the image on the LCD monitor as you adjust the zoom with the
zoom lever.
Sliding the zoom lever towards T zooms in and enlarges distant
subjects. The camera will focus on subjects roughly 3.4 feet (1.0 m) or
more away.
Sliding it towards W lets you include a wider area in your shot. The
camera will focus on subjects roughly 0.4 inches (1 cm) or more away.
The slider is shown blue for optical zooming and red for digital zooming
(
p.80).
POINT
You can also defocus the background by using the optical zoom to
enlarge your subject.
ATTENTION
The more you zoom in, the more susceptible the image is to camera
shake.
MEMO
The digital zoom can be set to 205, 805 or OFF in the recording menu
(
p.80).
When the camera is turned off or the Auto power off function is
activated, the zoom setting reverts to wide-angle (W).
You can restrict zoom operation to a specified wide-angle setting by
selecting “STAGE” in the scene setting (
p.57).