Dlux-4 - Digital Zoom, Extended Zoom, Picture Size

[mheimann]

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I am a naive user of my DLUX-4. What I do not understand is the relationships between the picture sizes, the digital zoom and the extended optical zoom settings. The instructions booklet is not very clear. Has this somewhere described in more detail for a layperson?

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[stuny]

Digital zoom actually throws away pixels to achieve the effect of additional zoom -- Very much like cropping an image. For the rest of your answer I'll leave it to one of the many members who have D-Lux-4 cameras.

[kschwarz]

The DL4 has an extended zoom feature when the resolution is reduced from 10 to 3 MP. The camera uses only the center 3-million pixel area, thus extending the focal length equivalent of the lens. This is much like the increase in focal length equivalent that occurs when a smaller than full-frame sensor is used in D-SLRs.

[zeuszen]

In "very" practical terms, assume digital zoom doesn't exist and don't use it.

[bill]

In "very" practical terms, assume digital zoom doesn't exist and don't use it.

 

That's a good way of putting it. You can always crop in P/S afterwards to get the same result

 

Regards,

 

Bill

[Zelig]

That's a good way of putting it. You can always crop in P/S afterwards to get the same result

 

Regards,

 

Bill

 

That's the way.

[regedit]

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That's the way.

 

Agree, even so, some of people wants out of the camera results. The difference between using digital zoom (which I personally don't use) and a crop of a bigger picture is the light. Sometimes through metering settings the picture is exposed taking in consideration multiple areas (if you choose so in the menu) and the crop have the light of a bigger picture. Through digital zoom, the exposure is set only to defined area. That result in better out of the camera pics. I n the end, it's your choice.