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How to stop G5xii from zooming beyond optical zoom but still allow digital?

Started 10 months ago | Questions thread
requa
requa Contributing Member • Posts: 860
Re: How to stop G5xii from zooming beyond optical zoom but still allow digital?
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This might be a slightly different approach. For me, digital zoom is the second thing I disabled on any new camera (after all of the sounds), but I certainly understand that is only my personal preference. I have certainly used plenty of other cameras that behaved the way you are describing and never realized this one did not do the same.

Try setting the finction of the front control ring to zoom. With that setting, rotating the front ring controls the zoom all the way to 120 mm and stops there. To proceed further into the digital zoom range, you have to use the regular zoom control around the shotter button. If you get in the habit of zooming with the ring, you will absolutely not accidentally go into the digital zone.

Dan

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