Optical or digital photo

Can you tell the difference between these two photos. Both are a video screen grab taken with my Sony FDR-AX53. However one is using to optical option and the other the digital option


well the top is digital and the bottom is optical. Digital can zoom in closer if your still wondering

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Yes, I can see that RS…a much closer picture in the top one…which you said you zoomed in on?

I can definitely see your fascination by it all, you’ve hooked me,:+1::open_mouth:

Well, it looks closer to me.

actually they are zoomed in same amount one i forgot to put in fll screen size. However the point I was tryhing to raise is some who have this camcorder only video in optical option and to be honest I prefer the digital option . give me a few minuets and i will put up the videos. may take a bit of time

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I’m going by that concrete post and conifer, they are definitely bigger in top pic,imo, ok, will wait for you to post video, no rush.

So you can see pauline digital has far better zoom range The video fluttering is down to the rendering and youtube compression not on the original. nothing i can do about that sorry but I did use the quickest way to put on here as well with smallest file size

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Crikey, that really does zoom in!..:+1::+1:

That would be fantastic filming those swans in Newbury with that camcorder.