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From wikipedia.... https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_zoom
When comparing the image quality achieved by digital zoom with image quality achieved by resizing the image in post-processing, there's a difference between cameras that perform potentially lossy image compression like JPEG and those that save images in an always lossless Raw image format. In the former case, digital zoom tends to be superior to enlargement in post-processing, because the camera may apply its interpolation before detail is lost to compression. In the latter case, resizing in post-production yields results equal or superior to digital zoom.
More or less what I said... Only they probably took longer to compose the text.
Is this being explored as a Yorkshire alternative to a Z7 and the 500PF?
If so I think it will win the Yorkshiremans prize for thrift but fail big time on IQ. Two zooms, one of which digital, on a bridge camera will never approach the quality of the 500PF (+ X1.4?) and cropping the Z7 (or D850).
Straight logic, why would anybody buy the expensive option if the cheap option would even, almost get the job done.
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