Buying a digital camera

C_Ronaldo

Ive noticed a samsung digital camera in comet for £80 but 1 question id like to knw is does it matter if the camer has 3x optical zoom and 5x digital zoom, is it a bad thing that the camera has more digital than optical zoom

ckerrd

Personally I never use the digital zoom on my Samsung, can zoom in on the software on the PC.

One word of warning my Samsung eats batteries, has a screen which is not very clear in bright light and to be honest I wouldn't recommend it. It is a 7 megaixel job.

espresso

Basically forget the digital zoom, as that can easily be done when the picture is on your computer.

Cricri

Ditto. Digital zoom=rubbish feature. Optical zoom is what matters, and that's why optics quality matters if you are serious about zooming (i.e. you can't get a 5mm diameter lense and expect paparazzi quality).

superscaper

Cricri wrote: »

Ditto. Digital zoom=rubbish feature. Optical zoom is what matters, and that's why optics quality matters if you are serious about zooming (i.e. you can't get a 5mm diameter lense and expect paparazzi quality).

Isn't "paparazzi quality" an oxymoron?

Lord_Gardener

Worth having a look here to get some info on buying digital camera's!

http://www.pcworld.com/ic/cameras/

Cricri

superscaper wrote: »

Isn't "paparazzi quality" an oxymoron?

Could be They must have some filters so that it looks like it was stolen in an instant from a distance to make it more sensational I wouldn't mind having one of their optics though, you know, the ones which look like a bazooka and needs to be strapped around your back!

superscaper

Cricri wrote: »

Could be They must have some filters so that it looks like it was stolen in an instant from a distance to make it more sensational I wouldn't mind having one of their optics though, you know, the ones which look like a bazooka and needs to be strapped around your back!

I know, absolutely fantastic equipment wasted on those....

Enterprise_1701C

With any digital camera the bigger the optical zoom the better, the digital zoom decreases the quality of the picture. When I had a basic digital camera I just used to crop the picture on the computer to zoom in on whatever I wanted.

In contrast to the post above, my old Samsung was very good with batteries, but I have to agree on thes creen quality in bright light, the picture was almost invisible. Mind you, this was an ancient 3.2 mp (about 5 years old!)