View Finder - A small eyepiece or screen on the camera that allows you to see the image you're recording. This camera has a special two speed power zoom. For quicker zooms press normally. To make sure your shots are in focus, zoom in and focus up close first, then zoom back. This insures that what you are shooting is focused to the greatest extent possible.
Manual focus is good to use when there is a lot of movement of dominant figures.
Because it focuses automatically on the dominant figure, it will adjust to whatever becomes dominant. For example, if you are focused on a person several feet away, and someone walks in between the camera and the other person, the camera will adjust to focus on the new dominant figure - the person who walked in front of the camera. Fade - a gradual increase or decrease of the image and sound. You can fade an image to black, or do the reverse. There are 30 frames in a second.