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What is the difference between digital zoom and optical zoom? What do you know?

April 19, 2024

What's the difference between optical zoom and digital zoom?


The main difference between digital zoom and optical zoom is that optical zoom uses the movement of the lens focal length to achieve 10 times closer to the shooting target, which can clearly enlarge the image without any loss of image quality. The digital zoom function can enlarge the image 120 times. But the image quality is affected. When a digital camera with optical zoom zooms at a long distance, the sense of space and layering of people or things is better than that with digital zoom, but digital zoom products are more convenient to use.


Digital zoom
Digital zoom, whose English name is DigitalZoom, uses the processor in the digital camera to increase the area of each pixel in the picture to achieve the purpose of magnification. This method is like using image processing software to enlarge the area of the picture, but the process is carried out in the digital camera, using "interpolation" processing to enlarge some of the pixels on the original CCD image sensor, and then enlarging the area on the CCD image sensor. The pixels are enlarged to the entire screen using an interpolation algorithm. Digital zoom actually does not change the focal length of the lens. Principle: Use software to judge the color around existing pixels, and insert pixels added by a special algorithm based on the surrounding color conditions.
           
Optical zoom

A camera with optical zoom brings the image closer before you capture it. Your camera does this by moving different lens parts relative to each other. That's why the lens moves when you zoom in with an optical zoom. This brings you closer to the image without losing quality. Note: not every lens allows you to zoom in completely without getting lens errors. Examples of lens errors are.







           
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In short, optical zoom allows to you bring the object close before you capture it. With digital zoom, your camera uses a part of the image and sizes it later. That's why the risk of losing image quality is greater with digital zoom. You can compare it to seeing pixels when you magnify a small image. The disadvantage of optical zoom is that you'll get lens errors when you zoom in with less advanced lenses.


       


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