Re: [Paddlewise] New Waterproof Digital Camera

From: Keith Wrage <keith.wrage_at_charter.net>
Date: Fri, 15 Apr 2005 20:08:20 -0500
For the most part digital zoom is useless - OK, a bit of an exaggeration 
but all a digital zoom does is make the pixels bigger - so yes, it appears 
zoomed but the image quality drops.  The software interpolates to smooth 
things out.  Not sure, but the lack of optical zoom may be the result of 
trying to waterproof the unit as optical zooms rely on moving lenses in 
some fashion.  .  I'd want a minimum of 3x optical zoom on a point and 
shoot.  Personal opinion.

my $0.02,
K
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