By simply pressing the Zoom Framing Assist button located on the lower front left of the camera, the lens will quickly zoom out to help you re-locate and frame your subject.
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Aside from simply feeling more solid that the cheaper model, the SX500 also offers up features like Zoom Framing Assist, which can be accessed via a devoted button on the front of the camera, letting you zoom out to help find your shooting subject -- a function it performs quite quickly.
Zoom in, pan out, and rotate using multi-touch in any conditions and even with most gloves.
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As with all online search technology, Zoom still suffers from garbage-in, garbage-out syndrome. (One out of those six results turned up a guy who lived in Florida.) Company searches can be even shoddier.
The TV connect allows you to control your TV just like a tablet - tap, swipe, zoom in, zoom out, select or type.
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Fairly similar to the Coolpix 8800, the new eight megapixel Nikon Coolpix 8400 has a wide angle, 3.5x optical zoom lens and a 1.8-inch flip-out LCD screen.
Unfortunately, we didn't get to test out Sony's new 16-50mm power zoom lens, but we did put the NEX-6 through its paces using the familiar 18-55mm kit glass that came with our NEX-C3.
He took data from the MRI and used software to create a three-dimensional simulation so that, video-game style, he can zoom in and out of the colon and look at it in detail.
Next up is the Nikon Coolpix 8800, an eight megapixel camera with a 10x optical zoom lens and a 1.8-inch flip-out LCD screen that's the first consumer camera from them that uses their Vibration Reduction anti-shake system.
For all those times when the action is just out of reach, Canon offers two new super-zoom solutions, the new PowerShot SX500 IS and PowerShot SX160 IS digital cameras featuring an impressive 30x and 16x optical zoom, respectively.
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Rounding out Canon's new PowerShot lineup is the PowerShot A2500 digital camera, which includes a 16-megapixel image sensor and DIGIC 4 Image Processor, as well as a 28mm wide-angle lens with 5x optical zoom that can extend out to 140mm at the telephoto end.
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Vector-based graphics based on mathematical lines and points rather than pre-created bitmap graphics, making it quicker to zoom in and out of an area.
The 3.5-inch touch-screen display lets warfighters move information around, zoom in or out or place digital 'markers' on tactical maps with the touch of a gloved finger.
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The sheer amount of data taken in by a camera like this is too large to be completely relayed to the ground, but users are able to define upwards of sixty-five independent video windows within the image and zoom in or out.
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Ads are way more intrusive in the digital magazines because page turns are often slow and cumbersome and you have to zoom in and out to see the content smoothly enough which often also involves a too-slow redraw.
Never did we feel like the camera was going to slip out of our hands, feeling very well-balanced with the included power zoom.
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One-year forecasts are pretty much worthless (witness the past year, which saw stocks zoom into the teeth of a weak, slow recovery), and even decade-out estimates are close to garbage.
The grubby, high-ISO 1080i video above can't transmit this experience -- all we could do is zoom in on a detail and then zoom out again to show how small a proportion it was of the total image.
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It now features intuitive touch, more paper-like page turns, improved continuous page turns and a smoother zoom in and out.
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Dr. Brady said that when his team used the device to photograph the Seattle skyline, they were able to zoom in and read the "In" and "Out" signs written on a parking garage a half-mile away.
While the entry-level GZ-E320 misses out on the highlight mode, all five models share a 40X optical zoom, 1080p shooting from a BSI CMOS sensor, an SDXC card slot and a 3-inch touchscreen for previewing any would-be masterpieces.
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Samsung wasn't deterred, however, and brought out DiamondTouch, a projector based multitouch table that utilized both one touch scrolling and pinch-based zoom gestures.
Online clothiers have come a long way thanks to goodies like free shipping and hassle-free returns, plus technological advances that let Web customers see richer images, zoom in and out on product features and compare many different colors.
There are a couple of related key features here: first we have the zoom bar in the album app -- you hold down your finger to prompt the bar, and then you can zoom in and out with your vertical scrolling action.
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