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digital zoom

Nov 28, 2004 8:08AM PST

Which is more powerful 3x zoom or 10x zoom?? Just want to make sure that the opposite is true in the case of lenses.

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Re: digital zoom
Nov 28, 2004 9:00AM PST

You puzzle me with this one.

Zoom is Zoom

10X is more powerful than 3X

regardless if it optical or digital.

Digital zoom has little value.
Anything it can do, you can do equally well with software.


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The only one that counts is optical zoom. If it is optical,
Nov 28, 2004 9:33AM PST

10X is better than 3X. However, if camera A has 2X optical and 10X digital, and camera B has 3X optical, camera B is better.

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Re: digital zoom
Nov 28, 2004 2:17PM PST

Micky14! As I just told Cheermom, don't buy into the digital zoom crock. It is of no advantage unless you like to see the equivalent of a 2 megapixel image from a 4 megapixel camera. Look at it like this. Digital zoom uses a smaller area of your digital sensor array (fewer pixels), then it blows that area up to fill the frame. Basically, the more you zoom digitally, the less clarity you will get. Go for LENS ZOOM! Leave "digital zoom" out of the picture. (play on words intended)

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Re: digital zoom
Dec 1, 2004 10:08AM PST

HOLY COW!! i have just had a breakthrough!!! i don't need to pay more for a higher zoom and suffer with lower mega pixels, i can just do it myself on iphoto!!! pixman? you da man!!!! thank you so much!
we had a olympus 750 uz that got stolen this weekend along with our mini dv and all of our home movies, so i'm looking into replacing the camera and was doing research. the only thing that i don't like about the olympus is that i had to manually put up the flash and sometimes i would forget. is this the case with the new 7000? do you have any other suggestions?? and don't forget, YOU DA MAN!

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Re: digital zoom
Dec 3, 2004 8:33AM PST

I don't know about the 7000 having a flash but I have seen other Olympus cameras that flip the flash up when you turn them on and after using my faithful c700 which, like yours old one, you have to release the falsh yourself, I think flip flashes are a pain.

If you just want to point and shoot and let the camera do the thinking whether to use the flash or not, then fine but I get far better pictures without the flash, often because there is no reflection, which there would have been had the flash gone off automatically.

Regards

Eaglemaster