1/08/2012

What's The Difference Between Digital and Optical Zoom?

By James Helmering


Many electronic cameras offer both optical and electronic zoom. These 2 regularly confuse the average camera customer, till you know what you're taking a look at.

Optical zoom works much like the zoom lens on a 35 mm film camera. It changes the length of your camera's lens and draws the topic closer to you. The optical zoom keeps the standard of the picture. Digital zoom works differently. It simply takes the picture and crops it then builds up the part that is left. It causes the quality of the photo to be reduced, occasionally quite significant.

What this suggests vis output is you could have a larger view of an object with the digital zoom, but probabilities are your image will become un-focused. Details will become lost. It's really best to switch off the digital zoom feature of your camera if feasible. This may prevent you automatically zooming in too near as the digital zoom is often an extension of the optical.

There are two things you can do if you want a closer view of a subject but desire the quality of your picture to still be good. Try moving in closer when you take the picture. Regularly only a foot or two will do the job. If this is not possible you can set your camera to take a picture at its highest file size. This will end up in a photo that can be cropped to include only your desired subject, yet allow for an image that is still clear you can but need a program to try this. For something as easy as cropping you might get a free photo editing software on the internet.

Digital zoom has its place. It can be used if the sole destiny of your photo is the Net. Photos online could be a much lower quality in the camera and still appear acceptable when sent through email or posted on a web gallery. If your objective is printing nonetheless , seek a camera that has a larger optical zoom and turn off the digital zoom. Your footage will be better at the end, even if they are not as close up.




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