Most (all?) digital cameras include digital zoom; for some low-end cameras, it's the only zoom they have. The amount of digital zoom in still-photography cameras is modest, usually around 3x. Among DV (digital video) movie camera, digital zoom has gone out of control, so that mine, for example, boasts of 200x zoom. That's made up of 8x optical zoom times 25x digital zoom; fortunately, an option in its menu limits the max zoom to 40x -- that's a mere 5x digital zoom. I've seen a camcorder boasting 840x digital zoom. Yikes! (Beside the text are photos taken with the DV... Read more →
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