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Oct 1, 2015 8:43 PM CST

Name: Mary
My little patch of paradise (Zone 7b)
Gardening dilettante, that's me!

flaflwrgrl said:I don't have a lens Ronnie.
We also don't have a camera shop here.

Natalie, what was the deal you learned about re: optical zoom vs the something or other zoom???? I can't remember.

I'm not Natalie, but most cameras have 2 zoom settings: optical and digital. Optical is the one that matters - it's comparable to putting a zoom lens on an SLR camera. My large camera has 20X optical zoom, which they say is equivalent to over 400mm. Digital zoom, on the other hand, is like enlarging a picture on a photo-copier.

These 2 pics give you an idea -- first one is no zoom, second is full zoom. This is from a camera that is now 10 years old.

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