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Digital cameras can do both just as easily as the next unless there is something wrong with the camera.
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What type of digital camera is better either with optical zoom or digital zoom?
Optical zoom is way better than digital zoom as digital only expands the picture. Optical zoom actually zooms in.
Is 160x digital zoom better than 350x digitial zoom?
350 is bigger than 160. But you should look for optical zoom. Digital zoom at even about 30x gets so blurry and horrible.
What is better digital zoom or optical zoom?
Optical Zoom is the true zoom, Digital is basically the zoom in of what the highest optical zoom is. Therefore Optical Zoom is the better zoom, and gives a much clearer picture.
Why is a digital zoom worse than an optical zoom?
The reason an optical zoom is better to have than a digital zoom boils down to quality. When one uses an optical zoom the subject is brought in closer without losing quality. When a digital zoom is used, the camera crops and digitally enlarges the picture, sacrificing quality.
What are the advantages of using optical zoom?
If you use an optical zoom, you can take pictures without getting really close to things. An optical zoom is better than a digital zoom, because an optical zoom does not cause pictures to be pixely or grainy, and digital zooms often do.
What is the difference between digital and optical zoom?
Digital zoom uses software to zoom in further than regular optical zoom, which uses lenses to magnify the picture.
Why is it better to use optical zoom rather than the digital one?
Because your ugly and I know it and you know it too
How much difference is there between a x50 zoom and x60 zoom on a digital camera?
You will have an image about 20% larger at x60, but there is catch. Usually magnification of that amount is a combination of the optical zoom and digital zoom. The total obtained by multiplying. With digital zoom, the quality will likely decrease faster as the magnification increases. So normally, the optical zoom will go to maximum before the digital zoom begins to operate. So if the x50 has 10x optical and then 5x digital, it could produce a better image than 6x optical with 10x digital zoom (unless the optics are not that great). It's good to know which is which. See if you can find reviews on both.
Is 24X zoom better than 200X on camcorders?
There are two types of zoom, optical and digital. Optical zoom is the actual capability of the lens itself. Digital zoom is what the computer in the camcorder does above and beyond the limit of the lens. If you've ever taken a low-resolution photo and blown it up much larger than the original size, you know what happens. The pixels get bigger, and bigger, and bigger until all you see is a patchwork of squares. That's what digital zoom does, it just enlarges the image that the lens captures, so quality degrades the further you go into the optical zoom range. When you zoom in on an object and the zoom seems to hesitate, or you have to press the button again you know that you are then switching to digital zoom and have maxed out the actual capability of your optical zoom. So, to answer your question, 200x is not always better than 24x zoom, unless of course it's all optical zoom, not digital, which is very rare unless you have a very high-dollar camcorder with inter-changeable lenses.
Is 3x optical zoom and 5x digital zoom good?
3x optical zoom and 5x digital zoom are standard features on most mid-range pocket digital cameras. A better optical zoom capability would be 6x or 8x optical. The digital zoom capability can be ignored, since all it does is crop and expand your image, necessarily reducing its resolution. Digital zoom may be handy for giving you a close-up view in the viewfinder or on the viewscreen, but the photographer must remember that picture quality shot with digital zoom may be compromised. POOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOP U:P
Zoom on Cannon Poweshot?
The Cannon Powershot has both and optical and digital zoom features. Optical zoom is far superior to digital zoom.
What is zoom in digital camera?
zoom is to enlarge the image and capture in a digital camera
