When Viewing A Digitally Magnified Image On The Lcd ....

[O'Chutsman]

.... is it possible to save that magnified image to the computer? The camera is an Olympus C-740. I did a search for this kind of question but did not find any.

[Michael Fanelli]

.... is it possible to save that magnified image to the computer? The camera is an Olympus C-740. I did a search for this kind of question but did not find any.

I doubt it. But you can do exactly the same thing (and much more accurately) in even the simplest photo editing program. There is no need save something from the LCD.

[O'Chutsman]

I doubt it. But you can do exactly the same thing (and much more accurately) in even the simplest photo editing program. There is no need save something from the LCD.

This is my first camera that has BOTH Optical and Digital magnification. I'm moving up from an old Sony FD91 which has 14X optical zoom (no digital). I would choose more optical zoom over megapixels any day.

Is this digital limitation the same for all digital cameras? I find it a little misleading when the advertisements combine the two zooms into one, especially those that say, "seamless".

What about the quality in the photo editing program when used to zoom in - is there a "preferred" editing program that does not harm the quality too much?

Thanks for your reply.

[Spike]

Is this digital limitation the same for all digital cameras? I find it a little misleading when the advertisements combine the two zooms into one, especially those that say, "seamless".

Yes, optical and digital zoom has the same limitations/qualities across all cameras (assuming they have any zoom functionality). Digital zoom is a gimmick. I just turn it off on my cameras. All digital zoom is doing is cropping in-camera instead of you cropping in an editting program later. Quality suffers when digital zoom is used.

What about the quality in the photo editing program when used to zoom in - is there a "preferred" editing program that does not harm the quality too much?

Some editting software is able to interpolate, to make up for missing pixels. Some cameras do this too. (Some Fujis I believe.) I'm really not sure which programs give the best results.

Spike

[O'Chutsman]

Thanks Spike ...