Thursday, July 1, 2004
Smart Digital Zoom In Sony DSC-P73
Posted by Suhit Gupta in "ARTICLE" @ 06:00 AM
"I usually advise folks to avoid using the digital zoom feature. In most camera’s, it simply enlarges the central area of the image sensor by interpolating it up to the full sensor image size, degrading image quality. The DSC-P73, however, has a “Smart” digital zoom feature that crops the central portion of the image and produces a high-quality uninterpolated image of smaller size. The smart digital zoom expands the 3x optical magnification to 3.4x when shooting 3-megapixel images, 5.4x when shooting 1-megapixel images and 10x when shooting VGA-sized images."
Steves Digicams has a long review on the brand new Sony DSC-P73, a 4-megapixel digital camera with a 3x optical zoom. Of course, what makes this camera special is that smart digital zoom feature. I have always completely ignored the digital zoom numbers because essentially the camera just magnifies the image to give the illusion of zoom, giving rise to a highly pixelated image. But I guess one would have to reconsider the feature if this truly does what it claims. Unfortuanately the review does not have any images of the smart zoom in action. Has anyone played with this camera yet?
Steves Digicams has a long review on the brand new Sony DSC-P73, a 4-megapixel digital camera with a 3x optical zoom. Of course, what makes this camera special is that smart digital zoom feature. I have always completely ignored the digital zoom numbers because essentially the camera just magnifies the image to give the illusion of zoom, giving rise to a highly pixelated image. But I guess one would have to reconsider the feature if this truly does what it claims. Unfortuanately the review does not have any images of the smart zoom in action. Has anyone played with this camera yet?
