Digital Zoom Is Actually...

[Pondria]

Pretty good on the s75. I tried matching a digitally zoomed image
with a non DZ image and blown up the non-DZ in PS Elements to match
the magnification. The digital zoom is much cleaner than trying to
zoom in PS Elements. It might come in handy if I'm in a pinch.
That is until I get a good teleconverter.

It could match a good teleconverter. I have a theory that 14 bit actually helps the DZ greatly. http://www.dpreview.com/forums/read.asp?forum=1009&message=389488
Could you please post links to the orginal images with DZ ?

 

[kra]

Its funny, the first thing I did when I got my S75 was turn off the DZ. I had heard all the bad things and I figured I would never us it. Turns out, it may actually be useful.

I posted the original files at the link below. I'm not sure if this is what you were looking for. I did not edit/alter. The files are as downloaded from the camera.

Alika

Pretty good on the s75. I tried matching a digitally zoomed image
with a non DZ image and blown up the non-DZ in PS Elements to match
the magnification. The digital zoom is much cleaner than trying to
zoom in PS Elements. It might come in handy if I'm in a pinch.
That is until I get a good teleconverter.

It could match a good teleconverter. I have a theory that 14 bit
actually helps the DZ greatly.
http://www.dpreview.com/forums/read.asp?forum=1009&message=389488
Could you please post links to the orginal images with DZ ?

 

[kra]

I tried your suggestion to see how it would come out. Resampling was much fuzzier or out of focus with less detail compared to the DZ.

I'm just hitting ctrl+ to zoom in. I'm not sure what the default
method in PS Elements is. Another thing a noticed, DZ eliminates
CA on branches with bright backgrounds.

if you resample the image in PS (not just zoom) you will see
similar if not cleaner results.