I was a bad, bad boy today

[bzzboyz]

I was a bad boy today. I finally broke down and bought myself a new digital camera to replace the old relic I had. I had a Panasonic Palm Cam that was the size of a large pair of binoculars. You actually insert a 3.5" disc in it. That worked OK until it broke and I can't get the disk out any more. This should be the last picture I ever take with it. I think I will give it to my oldest son.

I bought an Olympus Camedia C-50 zoom, 5.0 Mega pixel after doing some research on here and other places. I think it will work out well and I really like the size compared to my old one.

I just have to figure out how to tell my wife. (Or not).

"But I got it on sale dear" or "That old thing. I've had that for a long time"

Can someone in here explain to me about the zoom though. It's a 3X optical zoom and something about a 10X digital zoom. What is that and how does it work.?

 

[bighorn67]

There should be a feature on the camera where you can combine the optical(lens) zoom with the digital(computer) zoom. Combining the two together will get you 30x total zoom.

 

[Lan-Lord]

Are you sure it is 10x digital zoom??

What digital zoom does is "upsample" the original image that is captured by the optics. The image will degrade some though.

I use it. It is not too bad. Some cameras have a better up-sampling algorithm than others I think. You will just have to play around with it and judge for yourself.

 

[bzzboyz]

After playing with it for a while I finally figurerd it out. It's actually 12x with the digital zoom so I guess the digital zoom is 4x. When you switch to digital zoom the picture gets narrower. Still I think I am going to like it.

Lanlord, I don't have a clue of what you talking about on the algorithm but I'll take your word for it. I will just play with it for a while till I get it all figured out.

Thanks for your help.