Zoom Digital versus Zoom Optik

Zoom Digital versus Zoom Optik: Many digital cameras offer digital and optical zoom. Both often confuse the average camera buyer, until you know what you see.

Zoom Digital versus Zoom Optik

The optical zoom functions like a zoom lens on a 35 mm film camera. This changes the length of your camera lens and makes the subject closer to you. Optical zoom maintains image quality. Digital zoom works differently. Just take a picture and cut it and enlarge the remaining part. This causes the photo quality to decrease, sometimes very.

What this means in terms of output is that you might have a larger view of objects with digital zoom, but chances are your image will be out of focus. Details will disappear. We recommend that you turn off your camera's digital zoom feature if possible. This will prevent you from automatically zooming too close because the digital zoom is often an optical extension.

There are a number of things you can do if you want to see your subject more closely but want your image quality to remain good. Try moving closer when you take a picture. Often only one or two legs will do the trick. If this is not possible, you can set your camera to take pictures at the highest file size. This will produce photos that can be trimmed to only include the subject you want, but allow for clear images.

Digital zoom has its place. This can be used if the only purpose of your photo is the internet. Online photos can have much lower quality on the camera and still appear acceptable when sent by email or posted on the web gallery. However, if your goal is printing, look for a camera that has a larger optical zoom and turn off digital zoom. Your image will be better in the end, even if it's not that close.

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