Hallo I'm not native to English so pardon me... . Just wanted to ask, saw them beautiful new cameras, some of them sporting even 50 or so I think optical zoom. Are they for real? I mean do they work in some way reasonable xd? As zooms go I only have those old binoculars of mine and on them 15 optical zoom seems like everything is large then life. Again, do the run of the mill cam-corders will zoom nicely above the 15 plus mark like in my old camera I have. Would be grateful for some feedback. You folks take care.
they might sport such things, but the lenses on camcorders aren't up to it.. a quality lens capable of 60x zoom will cost in the 50k us mark or more.. and then you won't be able to use it without mounting it on something very very solid.. handheld won't be usable.. and just touching a tripod or the slightest breeze will make a mockery of any filming. I have a 28x lens for my old 35mm stills cam.. to go above 10x needed a tripod and above 20x needed 1000asa film, a very fast shutter, a large ballast weight on the tripod and a cable shutter release. sounds to me like another bunch of marketing speil to be honest.. it may do it, but the results aren't worth having.. so it's a pointless feature... a little like a "certified to 800 metres" divers watch... nobody can go that deep.. so who the hell needs it? Buy the best optical quality you can.. 5x zoom is perfectly adequate for a handheld.. 10x for a semi professional.. and above that you are getting into the league of specialist broadcast sport or surveillance kit. The highest range used commercially that I have ever seen are the 16x used by the outside broadcast people for the golf.. they use the best kit available (500k a camera plus the cost of the scaffolding camera towers and other stuff), and how often are you aware of camera shake on the long zoom shots??
