I bought a 10 megapixel digital camera with 15x optical zoom and an addition 5.7 digital zoom.?
Posted by adminJul 16
My question is will this take close and clear pics? I don’t care so much about the digital zoom because I know I lose quality, but I am more concerned with the 15x optical zoom. I think it will get pretty close, but any help would be great. For the money I paid I really want a camera zoom that will really get in there and get some great close-up shots.
Thanks
The camera is a Fuji FinePix SLR-style camera. It has picture stabilizer and has HD shooting mode to capture high resolution images and video to view on a compatible HDTV (not sure if that is good or bad).
Yes, it is a S2000HD. I looked up the camera on Fuji’s website and it seems like it will be a decent camera. I am using it for personal pictures and of some concerts I will be attending this summer. I won’t be needing it for professional use, but would like to know that I am not gonna get ripped out of 0 for a camera that is crap. I mainly got it for the 15x zoom, the rest is just extra.
I was hoping there might be someone that had this camera and saw my question and could let me know that it was a good camera and took good pics. I am not saying I am the ebest picture taker in the world, but I do kow how to use a camera.
Thanks for all the answers that I received. Was a bit worried I jsut spent 0 for a piece of crap, but from what I saw on teh Fuji site it looks like the 15x zoom will get as close as I want it too.
Related Digital Zoom Cameras Sites
- Top Camras » Battery NP-70 NP70 for Fuji Finepix F20 fd F47fd F47 fd
- DIY Camera Stabilizer, Filmmaking Tips: Backyard FX | Favbit | Photography Tips and Tricks | Photo Goods | Cameras and Equipments
- canon hg10 avchd high definition camcorder with optical image stabilizer | Digital Video Dvd Camcorder
- DIY Stabilizer – Mostly Archery with dustyvarmint – Skinny Moose Media
- scott5218593 » Blog Archive » Fujifilm Finepix F10 6.3MP Digital Camera with 3x Optical Zoom Discounts At Amazon!
2 comments
Comment by LEM on July 16, 2010 at 11:30 pm
It is impossible to tell from your information.
A model of camera would help a lot.
The information you provide can not be used to determine if a camera will be able to get a clear shot. Number of megapixels has nothing to do with quality whatsoever – only with how much you can blow up the image for a poster sizes. Optical zoom will tell us the magnification factor, but whether the glass itself is a good quality or bad – will determine whether the shots will be clear. I suppose that 15x zoom would be something like 28-420 equivalent of 35mm film, which is quite a good range. So yes, you’d be able to get close. But whether you’ll be able to get great shots depends mainly on you as a photographer, but also on the quality of equipment, not it’s zoom range. The problem with these superzooms is – usually to make it work manufacturers have to sacrifice a lot. Often it means sacrificing quality. It’s hard to build a lens with this optical zoom without giving up on some distortions, abberations, etc.
And of course – like you said – forget digital zoom. It does not exist. It’s a marketing gimmick, meaning cropping a piece out of center and magnifying it. You can do the same on a computer later at much higher quality.
LEM.
==Edit===
You like to keep us guessing, don’t you? Why not just tell the actual model of a camera? Based on specs you provide I can guess it’s Fuji FinePix S2000HD. Well, dpreview does not yet have a comprehensive review of this camera, just its full specs: http://www.dpreview.com/news/0808/08081201fujifilms2000hd.asp – but taking it from here, SLR style is just a name, this camera has nothing in common with real SLR, except maybe a slightly SLR’ish body design, which bears little on picture quality.
The camera is an advanced point and shoot with super zoom. It has a tiny matrix typical to this kind of camera (1/2.3in), which crowds ten million little light sensors.That is not too good. The lens seems decent for p&s camera, based on the specs. Can’t really comment on quality of glass, but per its characteristics (27.6-414 equiv, f/3.5-5.4) it’s probably on the higher end of lenses in this class of cameras. So all in all, I think you will get what you paid for, but don’t expect it to be like a real SLR. It is absolutely not even close to it. If you take it for what it is, I think it’s a decent camera for the buck.
Just make sure you understand that HD does not really mean anything for the photographic results. It can capture movies in HD format, which is fine, but that is not a movie camera anyway. It can also connect to HDTV to show pictures you shot in HD, but again, it’s more of a gimmick than a feature. The internal image resolution (and HD is a resolution, not quality measure) is a few times higher than HD standard in all current digital cameras, yours included. HD is a TV standard, not a photo standard!
If you really want to see great results though – I suggest you to read some photography books (not those cheap digital photography guides that tell you how to post-process images on a computer, but actual photography as an art guides on composition and technical side, etc). Because it is not the camera that is responsible for 90% of all messed up photos out there. It’s usually the person behind the camera, also known as a photographer!
LEM.
Comment by David M on July 16, 2010 at 11:30 pm
The 15x zoom you have does not mean that you will get great close up shots of flowers or something like that. What it means is that you will have the ability to bring far off items closer.
To get close ups of small objects you will need to check what the macro capabilities of the lens are. This is how close to your subject the camera will focus. It is an entirely different thing. As someone else said you will need to provide an actual camera model. If you look up the specs it should tell you what the minimum focus distance and the reproduction ratio for macro.