What's the difference between Optical Zoom and Digital Zoom in digital cameras?

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Jul 22

I know, Optical zoom is the one comes out of the camera and digital zoom doesn’t. But other than that how are they diffrent which one do you recommend when I am thinking about buying a
5megapixel 5X digital zoom. or 5.1 Mega pixel w/ 3x Optical zoom.
the one with digital zoom is lik 9 and Optical zoom is 150
I am going to be using this camera for mostly family pictures and trips.