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Digital Zoom - Why?

Oct 18, 2004 12:45AM PDT

Other than giving you an immediate, closeup view of your neighbor across the street, does the digital zoom that's built into a camera accomplish anything that zooming into a picture after it's downloaded onto a computer doesn't? Seems like either way you're just blowing up pixels, and the resolution would ultimately be the same.

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Re: Digital Zoom - Why?
Oct 18, 2004 12:50AM PDT

Such will take up less memory space on the camera and will be useful to some. You may shun it, I disable it and decide to crop the image later...

Bob

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Re: Digital Zoom - Why?
Nov 3, 2004 10:15AM PST

I don't see any point to it either although a lot of cameras advertize it. All it does is make the pixels bigger. Maybe it helps frame distance shots at higher resolutions where you can enlarge the pixels without destroying the image quality of the photo.