Jimande Loc: Huntsville, Alabama

Believe I used a tripod, can't remember. Shot from my front porch around 4:30 PM (CST), camera still set on DST. Data on download. Comments/critique welcome.

No pp on either.

Bloke Loc: Waynesboro, Pennsylvania

Very nice... How did you fill the frame in the second one? I only tried once so far, and my efforts were similar to your first photo. I haven't tried cropping in closer on them just yet. I will be trying more, once I get a decent view of it.

gregoryd45 Loc: Fakahatchee Strand

Great shots Jimande, love the detail,

Jimande Loc: Huntsville, Alabama

Thanks! Just kept "jiggling" the zoom lever to the right until 4x digital came up.

Jimande Loc: Huntsville, Alabama

Thanks Gregory, appreciate your comments! Incidentally, I shot these handheld (looked up another post at the time I made them.)

Bloke Loc: Waynesboro, Pennsylvania

Hmmm... I seem to have turned off the digital zoom function in my menu, and can't find a way to turn it back on. Once off, the option is greyed out, and the cursor just jumps over it.

I just got my printed manual from Staples - at $35 a bit pricy, but I can't work with manuals on screen! It doesn't work for me at all...

I want to test out whether, say 4x digital zoom would give exactly the same effect as 1x (no digital expansion) and enlarging 4x in PP. Logically, it *should* be just the same, says he, uncertainly...

Jimande Loc: Huntsville, Alabama

I looked at the picture data on the original, the first was 1 digital, the other 4 digital. Another option on the manual is download, which I did. Page 55 of the manual tells how (at the bottom) to turn off the digital; should be able to highlight digital zoom, click right side of the function set ring, select standard and click on it to reset. =Bloke]Hmmm... I seem to have turned off the digital zoom function in my menu, and can't find a way to turn it back on. Once off, the option is greyed out, and the cursor just jumps over it.

I just got my printed manual from Staples - at $35 a bit pricy, but I can't work with manuals on screen! It doesn't work for me at all...

I want to test out whether, say 4x digital zoom would give exactly the same effect as 1x (no digital expansion) and enlarging 4x in PP. Logically, it *should* be just the same, says he, uncertainly...[/quote]

Bloke Loc: Waynesboro, Pennsylvania

[quote=Jimande] Another option on the manual is download, which I did. Page 55 of the manual tells how (at the bottom) to turn off the digital; should be able to highlight digital zoom, click right side of the function set ring, select standard and click on it to reset.[\quote]

I *did* download the manual, but I can't work with a book on screen. By the time you zoom in to get a decent size, each page is about 4 screens, and you spend all your time trying to move around. I took the pdf file from the download to Staples, and they printed it out and bound it for me. I was surprised that Canon don't even offer the printed version for sale...

I will look at the manual over the weekend. The way the camera is now, you can't turn the digital zoom back on, because the cursor doesn't go to that line at all. There was another option somewhere that did the same, but I can't remember what it was. Instead of just being set ON or OFf, like almost everything else, those entries just grey out when you turn them off.

Jimande Loc: Huntsville, Alabama

Another option would be to set the camera back to default settings. I did this once because I thought the camera was not operating at its peak, then reset and everything worked fine.[quote=Bloke]