It should tell what your wide angle is on the digital camera. It’s hard to give direct comparisons with a 35mm camera. It really depends on the lens on it. You take the widest lens on any camera, multiply it by 4 and get the telephoto, and you have a 4x range. To further complicate matters, the digital camera has a sensor that’s smaller than 35mm film, so there is no direct equivalent. It’s usually about 1.5 to 1.6 times more telephoto on a digital.
And don’t even bother with digital zoom. It’s just in-camera cropping, and it will reduce your picture resolution as you zoom to crop.
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A digital zoom simply cuts out the middle of the picture, and makes it bigger. It doesnt actually zoom in, it just blows up a smaller part of the picture, so you have to sacrifice alot of quality when using a digital zoom. Sorry i dont know about the 35mm thing, i just thought i would let you know that digital zoom isnt zoom at all.
A 4 x optical zoom (almost any 35mm) and then enlarging the center of the picture 4 x (cropping).