Solution
If you cannot shoot the subject up close with the optical zoom, please consider the following.
When distant subjects are too far away to enlarge using optical zoom, use digital zoom for up to about 40x*1 or 32x*2 enlargement.
*1 PowerShot ELPH 150 IS / IXUS 155
*2 PowerShot ELPH 140 IS / IXUS 150 / PowerShot ELPH 135 / IXUS 145
1. Set the [Digital Zoom] to [On].
Press the <MENU> button, and from the [Shooting] (
) tab, set the [Digital Zoom] to [On].
2. Move the zoom lever toward <
>.
- Hold the lever until zooming stops.
- Zooming stops at the largest possible zoom factor (before the image becomes noticeably grainy), which is then indicated on the screen.
3. Move the zoom lever toward <
> again.
The camera zooms in even closer on the subject.
IMPORTANT
Moving the zoom lever will display the zoom bar (which indicates the zoom position). The color of the zoom bar will change depending on the zoom range.
- White range: optical zoom range where the image will not appear grainy.
- Yellow range: digital zoom range where the image is not noticeably grainy (ZoomPlus).
- Blue range: digital zoom range where the image will appear grainy.
Because the blue range will not be available at some resolution settings, the maximum zoom factor can be achieved by following step 2.
- Zoomed images may look grainy under some resolution settings and zoom factors. In this case, the zoom factor is shown in blue.
- The [Digital Zoom] cannot be used in the following modes.
- [Digital IS] (
)*, [Low Light] (
), [Fish-eye Effect] (
), [Miniature Effect] (
), [Toy Camera Effect] (
), [Monochrome] (
), [Super Vivid] (
), [Poster Effect] (
)
* PowerShot ELPH 135 / IXUS 145 only.
NOTE
- Digital Zoom Focal Length (35mm equivalent)
ELPH 150 IS / IXUS 155: 24 – 960 mm
ELPH 140 IS / IXUS 150 / ELPH 135 / IXUS 145: 28 – 896 mm
- Represents the combined focal length of optical and digital zoom.
Depending on how you have set the number of recording pixels and the magnification of the digital zoom, the zoom bar may be displayed in yellow (ZoomPlus).
To shoot with the digital zoom without causing the image quality to degrade, please shoot within the range of ZoomPlus.
