Don't Use Digital Zoom of Your Pocket Digital Camera

Digital Zoom of Pocket Camera - There is a feature in pocket camera that you should not use it: Digital Zoom.

Pocket camera usually equipped with Zoom feature. There are two kind of zooming: Optical zoom and Digital Zoom.

• Optical zoom yield by optical glass movement inside the camera. It works such as binocular.

• Digital zoom yield by enlarged interpolating cropped image. this feature will loss image details to enlarge it, so the yield is semi blur photos. See the difference at pictures below.

Tips to reduce noise is avoiding digital zoom feature. If you want to enlarge the image, it's better you come closer your pocket camera to the object.
The question is, "Why digital zoom feature attached to pocket camera?"