Timeline for Nikon DSLR and optical Zooming
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| Feb 7, 2013 at 17:41 | comment | added | Omne | @Sarah Keep in mind that DSLR lenses are not cheap, lenses with higher zoom ratio are not better lenses, and many good lenses come in fixed focal length, no zoom, just different magnification. check this Nikon Lense Simulator, choose different lenses (DX or FX) with DX format body such as D300 to get an idea about different lenses and focal lengths. | |
| Feb 7, 2013 at 16:08 | comment | added | mattdm | See the question I marked as a duplicate above, or also What does "how much zoom" mean? | |
| Feb 7, 2013 at 16:08 | comment | added | Matt Grum | The x just means times, with a 3x zoom at the most zoomed in setting objects are three times bigger than at the most zoomed out. Personally I haven't heard of anything more than 16x for a DSLR, 50x would be pretty extreme! | |
| Feb 7, 2013 at 16:02 | vote | accept | Shahid Karimi | ||
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| Feb 7, 2013 at 15:57 | comment | added | Shahid Karimi | I heard its upto 50x. Can you bit explain about the zooming, the x thing? | |
| Feb 7, 2013 at 15:51 | history | answered | Matt Grum | CC BY-SA 3.0 |