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Re: g7x mark ii goes to a rock concert - heavy digital zoom use
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Juggernaut122 wrote:
eagereyes wrote:
Amazing pictures! Why did you use the digital zoom though, rather than shoot normally and then crop later? You could have gotten somewhat better quality, I'd guess (or at least I wouldn't be able to zoom all that far in to see all those digital artifacts ;).
Great captures though!
Thanks.
I agree with the concept of not using digital zoom.
I didn't realize that digital zoom would give me better exposure - I usually use spot metering - but I did notice the the exposure was much more accurate than when I used a different camera at a similar event (it kept underexposing the performers because the stage lights made the overall scene seem bright to the camera).
My experience with this particular camera is that the digital zoom effects vs cropping doesn't make a very large difference (although cropping is indeed slightly better as you said), and I don't have any plans to make a large print of these, so I figured I would go with the digital. It would save me the time of having to crop later (I don't tend to post process except in special occasions).
When I look at these images on a large monitor (without zooming to 100%), they look completely fine, and I don't need to zoom into see closely into their nostrils
Thanks,
Paul
I would have thought with in camera digital zoom the camera's processor and jpeg engine would be dedicated to the actual image being recorded so in principal should be better than a crop in post where much processing overhead in camera of the image is just thrown away.
I would also think a much less compressed image could be output in the jpeg without hitting files sizes.
Difficult to prove in practice but these photos are very good. Plus this is a photographer framing pictures at that moment which is what it is all about. I always think if my computer wants to play around with images it can take its own.
Please do not be ashamed of using digital zoom. Nothing wrong with it at all.