When you use a lot of digital zoom the quality of the picture goes down leaving you with smaller size print options, right? Is it the same with optical zoom? I thought not, but some guy at the electronics store said "yeah a little" which just didn't seem right.
2007-03-01 16:21:48 · 10 answers · asked by prissysoccerprincess 2 in Consumer Electronics ➔ Cameras
To make it easy, optical zoom lets you zoom into whatever without giving up any of the picture quality. As soon as the optical zoom is used up on your cam, digital zoom kicks in. From this point on, you begin to lose picture quality because all you camera is doing is expanding the image its processing. The more digital zoom you use, the more pixellated the image will be. So if you want high quality photos (and especially if you wanna do large prints) stay within the optical zoom range when shooting. Hope this helps.
2007-03-01 18:47:04 · answer #1 · answered by ? 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
no, that is not right. Optical zoom uses lenses to enlarge your picture which does not compromise the quality of your photo. Optical zoom is the type of zoom your old 35mm used. Using optical zoom will allow you to adjust your print size more without losing quality. Eventually you could make your picture too big and it could compromise quality. The quality of your pictures will also depend upon the format in which you save your pictures. The greater the compression, the more the quality of your photo will decrease.
Wikipedia has some good information about digital cameras. I found it helpful to read when trying to decide what camera to purchase.
2007-03-01 16:32:21 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Pictures from optical zoom are real pictures takes at the sense. Digital zoom is just the software that increase the size of the pictures, thus you feel you are closer to the subject.
2007-03-01 17:05:11 · answer #3 · answered by Henry 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Digital Zoom is useless. If you want to enlarge your photos digitally, do it in a photoshop type software on your PC. Cameras should only have optical zoom. Digital zoom is a very cheap feature to fool consumers. There's no real gain to it.
2007-03-02 02:44:57 · answer #4 · answered by joshnya68 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
ONLY measure a camera by Optical Zoom. It's the only kind of zoom you should use.
Digital zoom is a useless feature and shouldn't be used. Maybe in the future they'll make it worthwhile.
2007-03-01 19:54:13 · answer #5 · answered by Jim 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
the guy at the store is right, however digi-zoom isnt quite as bad as it used to be with the new technology. ok now: optical zoom is still the best (Sony`s new cams have 40 op.- 2000 digi.) digi zoom has improved thanx to "interpolation"., basically all it does is "crops" the edges of ur pic at the end of the opt. zoom. opt. zoom is 2 lenses being moved by a tiny motor. hope this helps u.
2007-03-01 16:45:11 · answer #6 · answered by heli_guy60 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
That is not right, but the guy has a bit of a point. The longer the zoom, the harder it is to hold steady. This is compounded by the slower apertures usually found at longer focal lengths on consumer digicams. So you may end up with blurry photos from camera movement or slow speed, but that has nothing to do with the pixel count.
2007-03-02 03:36:22 · answer #7 · answered by Ara57 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Optical is better than digital, because the optical is the actual lens moving, and digital is withing the camera, so if you zoom in, optical isn't as blurry as digital
2007-03-01 16:29:40 · answer #8 · answered by iloveskating 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
optical zoom is the distance between the two lenses, and does not affect your picture quality or print options. digital zoom takes the frame and zooms in on it (like in your photo editor when you zoom in) and can affect the picture quality and give you less options, unless you like pixelated 8x10's.
2007-03-01 16:28:08 · answer #9 · answered by a.n.a 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2016-09-30 02:25:27 · answer #10 · answered by lachermeier 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋