I understand this comes with a 40mm lens. Does the camera provide any "digital zoom" capability at all?
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it does come with the 40mm prime lens, but its completely fixed, no digital zoom. this feature makes the camera work better as a video camera than it does a convenient point and shoot (i'm still raving about the video quality btw). at this point, your body would be the focal length, the closer you walk up to an object the closer it would be captured. i would suggest a 17-70mm lens rather than the typical 18-55mm that the sister camera the k-30 comes with, to give you a wider range, and i don't think the pricing is that much more. overall the k-01 isn't a bad camera, but you will want to purchase additional lenses, as it is definitely more of an SLR than a point-and-shoot.
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No it doesn't. You can get a program to do digital zoom, but that is just blowing up the picture and making it fuzzy.
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No, zoom or adjustable lens. It does have the five light setting which work pretty good for the price
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it's 9mm to 10mm manual zoom. Don't know exactly but a guess would be closer to 10X Zoom Optical. No digital zoom.
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Do *ANY* decent compact cameras nowadays allow optical zooming while shooting video? I've looked at a bunch of them in stores and can't seem to find any.
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My camera *did* come with a small remote control (WL-D89). It can be used to zoom, but you can't vary it.Edited to add: I just confirmed via the CanonUSA website that it is supposed to ship with the WL-D89.
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The camera was available in two different versions back when I bought mine. One came with a zoom - I don't know what zoom. Mine came with a 17mm 2.8.I bought it with the 17mm because I wanted the faster lens, as I was planning on buying a better zoom lens. When I purchased the camera, I bought separately an Olympus Zuiko 14 - 150mm 4 -5.6.
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The camera does provide 2X digital zoom according to my google search. I personally don't/wouldn't use a digital zoom as you will lose detail. Digital zooming does not increase the amount of detail captured, only increases the size of the pixels. It does pretty much what you would accomplish if you were to hold a magnifying glass to your monitor. The better way to achieve a "digital zoom" is through cropping after the fact in the software you use to adjust your photos. It accomplishes the exact same thing with the exact same loss of quality as the digital zoom yet allows you to have better control over the portion of the image you wish to "zoom" or crop. The camera does provide 2X digital zoom according to my google search. I personally don't/wouldn't use a digital zoom as you will lose detail. Digital zooming does not increase the amount of detail captured, only increases the size of the pixels. It does pretty much what you would accomplish if you were to hold a magnifying glass to your monitor. The better way to achieve a "digital zoom" is through cropping after the fact in the software you use to adjust your photos. It accomplishes the exact same thing with the exact same loss of quality as the digital zoom yet allows you to... » Read More The camera does provide 2X digital zoom according to my google search. I personally don't/wouldn't use a digital zoom as you will lose detail. Digital zooming does not increase the amount of detail captured, only increases the size of the pixels. It does pretty much what you would accomplish if you were to hold a magnifying glass to your monitor. The better way to achieve a "digital zoom" is through cropping after the fact in the software you use to adjust your photos. It accomplishes the exact same thing with the exact same loss of quality as the digital zoom yet allows you to have better control over the portion of the image you wish to "zoom" or crop. « Show Less
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No optical zoom. Digital zoom but essentially enlarging image. Works with blue iris per other users.
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It has 5x optical zoom and 10x zoom digital. Great camera for water and those who don't want to worry about drops and adult beverages and family vacation with a toddler playing with a camera!
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That is a great question. I tried to figure that out by checking the difference camera modes without success. I pushed E-Zoom on the top behind the zoom toggle button which bumped up the digital zoom to 16X. However, the digital zoom was inaccessible for me, also.I am sure that it is some simple solution....
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The camera came with they call a "kit" lens. I purchased a 50mm lens additionally. I haven't even used the kit lens yet, because I was really longing for the 50mm! I should probably try it out. I'm pleased with my older model, used camera - don't know why I didn't think of it sooner!
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Yes, it does and I bought it for that reason, and also usesregular AA batteries, which I find to be a plus! Takes greatpics and the zoom feature is terrific!
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Canon sx40 has 32x zoom and video and burst shooting. About $400. It has auto mode, too, so you don't have to be an expert. At the longest zoom, you need bright light, but this is standard for zooms. Not that small compared to the compacts but not too bulky. I like the specs of this camera, the s9100, but it sounds like there are a lot of lemons coming out, which is too bad. The s8100 only has 10x zoom, so that wouldn't be for you.
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Yes only digital... Well it might have a small optical zoom (5x or 10x) but I would not use the digital zoom as it gets very grainy. Honestly stopped using it after a year, case cracker twice, and the battery overheats causing it to drain really fast. Wouldn't film 10min with out powering down, and it was "fully charged'. I can't really recommend this camera. Sony point and shoots take better video...
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This is a fixed lens camera (cannot change the lens). From what Fuji claims this should be a huge jump in the quality of photography with the mega-zoom class of cameras. I only hope that they can live up to even half of what they claim. It will be interesting to see the professional reviews of this camera when it becomes available to the critics. I am going to hold off on purchasing a new camera until I see the reviews for this one. Unfortunately, I'm afraid that I (and most others) will be disappointed with it unless Fuji has totally redone the camera (and not just beefed up the HS10 which was a disappointing camera from everything I've read) and can actually deliver on their claims. I currently have a Panasonic Lumix DMC FZ35 and I like it for the most part. However I am deciding whether to move up to a DSLR or get a better Mega-zoom.
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Hello! It does have a zoom mode with the software it comes with. However, it only zooms in "Video" mode and not "Picture" mode. Enjoy!