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New ZS100 owner with questions

Started 11 months ago | Discussions thread
OP Bob A L Veteran Member • Posts: 7,084
Re: New ZS100 owner with questions
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John, watched the video and he basically just explained an overview of how the three forms of digital or expanded zoom functions work, which I already understand. My question on the i-zoom was intended to ask if leaving the camera in this mode had any degrading effect on photos taken at focal lengths below the full optical 250mm equivalent.  Or in a different wording does it only kick in after exceeding full optical zoom focal length? In which case I would likely want to only activate it when I wanted to use a focal length longer than 250mm equivalent.  Did I miss this in the video? or if not does anyone here know the answer? I guess basically I want to know if I should only activate either form of extended zoom only when needed, or can I leave it activated without effecting image quality when zoom is kept within the optical max? Anybody compared this?

Thanks

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