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Yer that's what I'm thinking, it's not every day you go on holiday so it's worth taking up more space for some better snaps.
Also, Once I hit a certain point I think I might just buy a 500GB external drive to keep all important images and documents on anyway so HDD space shouldn't be an issue.
Got about 1.5TB now but it's filled with downloads I cba to sort out lol...lazy
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Posted: 2008-07-04 23:20:15
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I've never ever taken my camera out of full res unless I want to use the extra optical zoom feature. Check that out, see if yours does it.
By using a smaller area of the image sensor, my camera boosts 10x to 15x with no loss of quality aside from the lower resolution.
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Posted: 2008-07-04 23:23:05
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Do you mean digital zoom?
I have 4x optical and 16x digital, but don't really plan to ever use digital, and if I did, 16 would be way more then I want to go in lol.
Would be interesting to try though, had a quick look but not sure where it would be.
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Posted: 2008-07-04 23:33:05
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It's not digital zoom, as arien says it uses the central part of the CCD when used in lower resolutions. For example, my Lumix TZ3 can get up to 12.6x optical zoom in 3mp mode, and 15x in 2mp mode.
Digital zoom just crops and enlarges the central part of the image, degrading the image. The extra optical zoom gives you a bit of extra zoom without degrading the image quality like digital zoom. imho digital zoom's completely useless, I always turn it off on a digital camera!
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Posted: 2008-07-05 00:13:29
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Just checked, it only seems to be 4x optical in all sizes.
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Posted: 2008-07-05 00:18:38
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Exactly what Sammy said, combine that with digi zoom and you can pull 60x if I'm not wrong. Don't have my camera at hand at the moment.
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Posted: 2008-07-05 00:48:07
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