Zoom vs crop - guess which?

Peter71951 wrote:

You can compare the two camera's if you don't cripple the HS30 in advance by using digital zoom. The following pictures are: no digital zoom, 1.4 digital zoom en 2.0 digital zoom. No digital zoom is the best picture. The HS30 has a 720 mm zoom lens. With the digital zoom you get 720mm x 1.4=1008 mm and 720 mm x 2.0=1440 mm. So you exclude the 720 mm and you start with the 1440 mm. That is cheating.