Digital Zoom

[urbpan]

My camera (which you all are fairly intimate with) has a digital zoom feature. While it allows me to zoom in 7x (whatever that means) as close, the resulting pictures are pretty grainy. I'm not sure it's worth using at all, but here's a bunch of pictures I took with it. What do you all think of it? (Frankly, I think when I see something far away, I should just have cottonmanifesto take a picture of it.


This squirrel was doing little adorable human things with its hands.





An American coot mills about some ring-billed gulls. They'll all be featured in 365 urban species articles when I get good enough pictures.


One of my favorite urban animals, but they haven't been posing for me lately. Maybe a sound recording will be better than a photograph.

Comments

[vampyrusgirl.livejournal.com]

Yeah, digital zoom is fairly useless. I've never liked it myself.

[(Anonymous)]

Digital zoom is almost a joke; it's not doing anything more than you could do yourself by taking the picture un-zoomed and making it really big in an image program. My camera has 3x optical zoom (real) and 3x digital zoom (lame), but I can turn the latter off completely.

I just bought an add-on telephoto lens for my cheapo digital from ebay, only to find that it was delivered to an address I lived two years ago. Wish me luck in tracking it down.

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