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Olympus SP-100 User comments requested

Started Oct 12, 2014 | Discussions thread
elliottnewcomb Forum Pro • Posts: 18,223
Re: Olympus SP-100 User comments requested

I don't know that model, but,

IF the SP-100 extra zoom works like it does in the Stylus 1, it is implemented advantageously for your use. Instead of being only a progressive amount of extra zoom, like my Sony is, it is a single button press to get double the optical focal length you are in. After it is engaged, then it zooms like a progressive extra zoom.

Advantage waiting for the elk to raise his head or move from the shadows: zoom full optical, engage 2x, adjust zoom for desired framing. Now, disengage 2x (single button press, perfectly located). You have twice the width to find and follow the elk, until he stops, press 2x button, wait for the raised head, shoot. He moves, press button, back out of 2x, find him, back into 2x. It's instant.

20. In-camera extra zoom, 2X (JPEG Only) Any time you engage 2X it doubles the optical Focal Length, (by in-camera cropping, and in-camera upscaling back to full 12mp). (activate 2X default is F1 button) Later, in the picture properties, the digital zoom info line will show ‘2’. Just multiply the 35mm equivalent by 2 for effective FL up to600mm or 1,020mm with tcon 1.7X and 2X (510mm x 2x). Jpeg only, it’s ‘effortlessly good enough’, well worth a look.

21. Tcon 1.7X conversion lens. If or when you buy one, you can/should tell the camera when it is installed. Camera 2, bottom line, symbol of lens. Off/ON. Two benefits. 1. The camera automatically zooms past vignette upon turn on. 2. The EXIF math, optical zoom x 1.7x optical conversion lens is computed by the camera, the effective 35mm focal length is given, up to 510mm optical. pg 53

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I don't know how you choose a superzoom, they are saying and showing very nice results from new Sony HX400v

24-1,200 with CIZ to 2,400.

http://store.sony.com/sony-high-zoom-point-and-shoot-camera-zid27-DSCHX400/B/cat-27-catid-All-Cyber-shot-H-Series-Cameras?_t=pfm%3Dsearch

Aisse is a master bird shooter from the rain forests of Brazil

http://www.dpreview.com/forums/thread/3738549

Stephen says this is the limit of the 1,200 optical you get for RAW

http://www.dpreview.com/forums/thread/3739473

Elliott

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