Digital Zoom vs. Optical Zoom

[playindagamewell]

Whats the point of digital zoom on a dig cam?
i took pics with my digi zoom maxed and they all came out blurry.. .

where as if i stick witht he optical zoom it works fine.. what am i missing?

[AEgeus]

Originally posted by HondaFreak4Eva
Whats the point of digital zoom on a dig cam?
i took pics with my digi zoom maxed and they all came out blurry.. .

where as if i stick witht he optical zoom it works fine.. what am i missing?

Optical zoom will always be better than digital zoom (unless you can get one that resamples the pic, which you can't)

All digital zoom does is enlarge the pixels to make it look bigger. A camera with a larger optical zoom will probably be more expensive too. Digital zoom is usually only good for the first 10X or so but after that the image goes to shit.

Digital zoom is just a big gimmick best not use it at all.

[cryogen97]

digital zoom is pure gimick. All it does is blow up the picture by making the pixels bigger. So you don't get any more detail than what the optical zoom gives you. Think of it like printing a very small image on a full page of paper. The image looks like crap, but you just digitally zoomed it by a factor of 10.

Optical zoom magnifies the actual image coming into the camera so you don't loose detail.

[fliplyricist1]

indeed...optical zoom is all the workings of the lense...digital zoom is really pointless unless you like to do a lot of long-distance spectating.

I personally do not use digital zoom at all, because for what distance I make up, I end up losing in output quality. Might as well just use a photo editor's zoom feature so you can keep copies of the originals in nice, crisp form..