Comments on: 3 occasions when it’s acceptable to use digital zoom

By: black_raven546

black_raven546 — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 04:30:23 +0000

4th time to use Dzoom,
when randomly spying on people across the lake :3

By: Paul Burwell

Paul Burwell — Thu, 21 May 2009 18:05:03 +0000

Robin,

Most point and shoot cameras have two types of zoom built in. They have an optical zoom that uses the lens to zoom, and then they often have a digital zoom which just magnifies the pixels.

There is absolutely nothing wrong with a point and shoot camera, but in 99.9% of cases you are better off turning off the digital zoom feature.

By: Robin

Robin — Thu, 21 May 2009 16:35:44 +0000

What if all we have is a point and shoot? It’s what I got as a gift years ago and I haven’t been able to afford to get a SLR. It’s my only option.

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By: scott

scott — Wed, 20 May 2009 03:55:43 +0000

digital zoom is good for:

camera phone users who have to upload directly to their facebook account

people who dont know how to edit or crop their pictures taken from their $400 point and shoot cameras that havent been off the auto mode since the underpaid worker first put the camera together

By: Rich C

Rich C — Tue, 19 May 2009 14:37:57 +0000

I’m completely onboard with you regarding digital zoom. I’ve been asked often about it, and I always tell people, “Turn the feature off if you can, otherwise just stay away from it…..”

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By: Dave Wilson

Dave Wilson — Sun, 17 May 2009 21:52:24 +0000

Great advice. Thankfully, many compact digital cameras have a menu option to completely disable the digital zoom function and this was the first thing I turned off on my last 3 compacts.

If you have the option, and absolutely must upscale an image, get the picture into some software that can do good quality upscale filtering (like Photoshop) and use that instead.

By: Allan

Allan — Sun, 17 May 2009 20:49:09 +0000

Great post. Going to re-tweet it for sure.

By: Jo-Anne

Jo-Anne — Sun, 17 May 2009 20:40:58 +0000

Too funny!

Thanks for a really great and much needed laugh!