38 optical and digital zoom

05122008010, originally uploaded by markresch.

05122008011, originally uploaded by markresch.

05122008012, originally uploaded by markresch.

your camera may have both optical and digital zoom settings. these are three pictures from the n95 the top is all the way wide optical only, the second is full optical zoom, and the third is full optical + digital zoom.

all three look good, but there's really not any more data in the third picture than the second—just good image processing.

you can achieve as good or better results from the digital setting by manipulating the data from the full optical zoom in a program like photoshop.

a second advantage of processing the optical photo is that you have more original pixels to choose from to frame the shot.