What's the optical zoom?

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Post #237,154 by drewk 12/6/05 10:01:49 AM Reply	What's the optical zoom? Two things I care about in my next digital: optical zoom, and how fast it can focus and shoot. Not just the boot time. My last digital, after pressing the shutter button it was a second or more to focus before it would shoot. === Purveyor of Doc Hope's [link\|http://DocHope.com\|fresh-baked dog biscuits and pet treats]. [link\|http://DocHope.com\|http://DocHope.com]
Post #237,183 by tonytib 12/6/05 1:20:19 PM Reply	D-SLR's are by far the fastest and coming down in price
Post #237,261 by folkert 12/7/05 7:47:10 AM Reply	My Optio 750z is 10x zoom Optical There are 2 settings for focus on the 750z One is equivalently "Small box in center of viewer or Nearly the whole blooming viewer" It takes a lot longer fot the large box... as it has to average everything. Two is focus mode "Single or Continuous" Single works very well for a quick series as it only has to focus once. Continuous is just that, it basically finalizes and shoot (easily less than .50000235168709^{[link\|#one\|1]} seconds using the Big Area, faster yet with the Small area) Basically this thing is only carried online or in "Professional Photograohy Shops", I have yet to see it in places like Best Buy or the such. So, IMO, goto a Pro Photo Shop and look at it (call ahead first to find one) -- [link\|mailto:greg@gregfolkert.net\|greg], [link\|http://www.iwethey.org/ed_curry\|REMEMBER ED CURRY!] @ *i_wethey* Freedom is not FREE. Yeah, but 10s of Trillions of US Dollars? SELECT * FROM scog WHERE ethics > 0; 0 rows returned. `1 == Yes Drew, it was added for your [link\|http://www.m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionary?book=Dictionary&va=contrivance\|contrivance] spotting skills`

Fuji S5200 digital camera - (Arkadiy) - (18) - Dec. 5, 2005, 09:52:39 PM EST

Try the Pentax Optio series - (folkert) - (4) - Dec. 6, 2005, 08:29:25 AM EST

Seconded. Love the Optio 550. - (admin) - Dec. 6, 2005, 08:55:11 AM EST

What's the optical zoom? - (drewk) - (2) - Dec. 6, 2005, 10:01:49 AM EST

D-SLR's are by far the fastest and coming down in price -NT - (tonytib) - Dec. 6, 2005, 01:20:19 PM EST

My Optio 750z is 10x zoom Optical - (folkert) - Dec. 7, 2005, 07:47:10 AM EST

My current top two candidates - (tuberculosis) - (6) - Dec. 6, 2005, 02:08:12 PM EST

Check this out - (drewk) - (2) - Dec. 6, 2005, 05:35:37 PM EST

Yeah, but that's a whole camera - (tuberculosis) - Dec. 6, 2005, 07:23:10 PM EST

Ahh.. synergy - still, all I need is___Macro! - (Ashton) - Dec. 7, 2005, 03:56:13 AM EST

For very special occasions - (tonytib) - (2) - Dec. 7, 2005, 07:12:36 PM EST

Thanks for the info. I'm not camera hunting, but hmmmm... -NT - (Another Scott) - (1) - Dec. 7, 2005, 10:28:51 PM EST

There's a lot to consider - (tonytib) - Dec. 8, 2005, 11:55:39 AM EST

My son likes his - (imqwerky) - Dec. 6, 2005, 04:46:01 PM EST

For you to compare Side-by-side all cameras mentioned here. - (folkert) - Dec. 7, 2005, 08:23:29 AM EST

I looked at dpreview reports for Canon S2 - (Arkadiy) - Dec. 8, 2005, 09:52:03 PM EST

Check this out - (broomberg) - (2) - Dec. 12, 2005, 09:44:37 PM EST

Looks nice - (drewk) - (1) - Dec. 12, 2005, 10:44:12 PM EST

Well.. I have a Canon enroute - (Ashton) - Dec. 13, 2005, 04:50:55 AM EST

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