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"8 state-of-the-art big zoom digital cameras. All have 5X optical zoom or better. Some up to 12X. Some are large, some are small. All are quite affordable. We tell you which is best overall, best for big zoom work, and best to just take along with you.
One of the great things about digital photography is that even inexpensive digicams come with optical zooms. That's because of their humble origins as sub-megapixel cameras less than ten years ago. In those days of 640 x 480, 800 x 600 or perhaps 1024 x 768 resolutions, you simply needed an optical zoom to get close enough to a subject without having to crop the picture until so few pixels were left that the image looked like something from an Atari 2600 video game. That started the tradition of equipping even budget digicams with good optical zooms, mostly of the 3X variety. 3X isn't much, but it is is perfectly workable. It gets you in a bit closer, and in this day and age of multi-megapixel cameras you have so much resolution available that cropping a megapixel or three hardly makes a difference. "....Read Complete Article
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