DPReview.com is closing April 10th - Find out more

What is zoom limit on SX60 if you lower megapixels?

Started Dec 11, 2014 | Questions thread
MarioV Veteran Member • Posts: 7,089
Re: What is zoom limit on SX60 if you lower megapixels?

JohnHarlin wrote:

On some cameras I have noticed that if you lower the megapixels, you can zoom much further. So I was wondering if you lower the megapixels from 16 to 8, what kind of zoom limit would you get? I would guess 130 zoom but I'm not sure. But then if combine that with the 4 times digital zoom of the camera, that would end up at about 520 zoom. Has anyone tried that?

John, keep magnifying the image on your screen and that is digital zoom.  If you kept zooming in to the equivalent of 520, how do you think the image would look like? Featureless mush.

 MarioV's gear list:MarioV's gear list
Nikon Coolpix P900 Canon G3 X Panasonic ZS100 Nikon D5200 Canon EOS M100 +4 more
Keyboard shortcuts:
FForum PPrevious NNext WNext unread UUpvote SSubscribe RReply QQuote BBookmark MMy threads
Color scheme? Blue / Yellow