Attn NCBoman

[indianadan]

THis is the neighbors home. I can't get my rangefinder to work, but it is well over 300 yards across a hay field.

First picture is regular with no zoom. Second picture is 1/2 zoom and 3rd pic is full zoom. The zoom function is very easy to use. Just zoom it on in and hold the button down halfway for one second and it autofocuses. Push the button down the rest of the way to take the pic. I believe it is 12X opticla zoom.

No zoom


Half zoom....for some reason photobucket is not downloading the whole picture but you get the idea


Full zoom

[Twanger]

Nice zoom! That's what you need for taking pictures of deer waaaaaay across the field, or really getting a good look at their antlers.

[Rock Chuck]

Here's another example of a zoom. My hunting camera has a 10x lens with a 4x digital zoom for a total of 40x. Digital zoom doesn't do much for a photo, but I used it here to see what it would do. It came out fuzzy, as expected. The hard part was getting the bird to sit exactly under that red arrow that miraculously appeared in the sky.

Dick

[indianadan]

I have digital zoom on my Sony handy cam. When I use the digital zoom, I have to manually focus instead of the video camera's auto focus.

[Rock Chuck]

Digital zoom is just a gimmick to sell cameras. It doesn't enlarge anything. All it does is spread out the pixels, then duplicate them in the spaces between them. That reduces the sharpness. I've done some comparisons and found that I get sharper photos by taking them at the highest resolution my camera will allow, then enlarging and cropping. I've never tried to crop a video, though. ;D

Dick

[Twanger]

Rock Chuck - I bet you'd get religion fast if an arrow like that appeared over your head. ;D

[ncboman]

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