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Advice on Camcorders wanted (1 Viewer)

eastwood

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Many a time, I find some birds are out of range of my lens.
I have never used any Camcorders before, but just learned from Magazines that some new DVD camcorders are now equipped with 4-5 megapixel still function. These instruments usually come with 10X optical zoom plus a rather big digital zoom capability.
I wonder if I use it for those far away birds, what kind of quality picture can I get. Say if the optical zoom comes to 300 mm (35mm equivalent), if I add on 4X digital zoom, it will be 1200. Is the image still decent?
Any advice from our staff or members please?
Thank you in advance.
Eastwood
 
eastwood said:
Many a time, I find some birds are out of range of my lens.
I have never used any Camcorders before, but just learned from Magazines that some new DVD camcorders are now equipped with 4-5 megapixel still function. These instruments usually come with 10X optical zoom plus a rather big digital zoom capability.
I wonder if I use it for those far away birds, what kind of quality picture can I get. Say if the optical zoom comes to 300 mm (35mm equivalent), if I add on 4X digital zoom, it will be 1200. Is the image still decent?
Any advice from our staff or members please?
Thank you in advance.
Eastwood
Eastwood

Just like still digital camera's, that image is no different to taking the optical zoom version onto your computer and then zooming in and cropping. I fact this is better as you still have the better quality pure optical zoom version. Its not been spoiled by using digital zoom and then saving that version to the DVD.
Theres no going back after using digital zoom!.
You'd be much better off buying a decent x2 converter lens and sticking that on the front of the camcorder!.
 
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