Digital Camera Zoom Lenses

digital camera zoom

Digital camera zoom has two types:

1. Optical zoom
2. Digital zoom

Picture quality is maintenance by optical zoom. With moving glass in the lens, magnifications can be changed by optical zoom. The specification of optical zoom lenses that is called “equivalent in 35 mm” tells you digital camera’s zoom range compared to 35 mm film camera. These numbers guide your idea to get range of zoom lenses. Below you wall see the range of digital camera zoom lenses.

1. 28mm use for wide angle
2. 35mm use for slight wide angle
3. 50mm use for normal perspective
4. 70mm use for slight telephoto
5. 105mm use for moderate telephoto
6. 135mm use for strong telephoto
7. 200mm+…..extreme telephoto

Most users use a 35 mm-105 mm equivalent zoom that can change a slight wide angle to a moderate telephoto. You can consider a 28 mm-200 mm equivalent lens that can change wide angle to an extreme telephoto. It also can take confined areas.

Optical zoom as 2x, 3x, 5x can be measured. You just divide 105 by 35 to get a 3x zoom for the 35mm-105mm. The important things when you compare digital camera zoom, use always the optical number. By using software to crop the photos, you will get the same effect as a digital zoom.  You know that, to change magnification, it can not be done by a digital zoom.

Zoom range capability is the important features that the consumers look at. Zoom make your photo easy for getting, you can get close up of the animal or just personal use. The compact camera is the feature that many also want it, because simple for using, and easier to carry around.

With the smaller lens, there are main advantage which can fit a high zoom rang into a small digital camera zoom. Sony and Olympus had offered camera that can use zoom 10x zoom, surely the price was more expensive and had powerful lens. Price and portability are the factors that consumers considered before buying. For the film camera, there are super zoom cameras.

Here are the cameras which are probably the best digital camera zoom.

1. Fujifilm FinePix S2000HD
2. Fujifilm FinePix S8100fd
3. Canon Powershot SX10 IS
4. Nikon Coolpix P80
5. Olympus SP-565UZ
6. Panasonic Lumix DMC-FZ28
7. Sony Cybershot DSC-H50

The types of digital camera zoom above have a zoom range 12x or more, some of the highest wide angle views as well, good image stabilization, strong zoom lens, include electronic viewfinder, full control when taking photos.

The other article that is useful for reading, “Choosing Good Digital Nikon”.

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