Asus Zenfone Zoom's 3x optical zoom disappoints for shooting pics from afar
I cringe every time I watch someone pinch-to-zoom on their smartphone’s screen right before snapping a photo. The seemingly simple act of zooming in on an object, despite what the screen on the phone displays at the time, almost guarantees the end result will be a pixelated, garbled mess of a photo. All smartphones available today use this "digital zoom" technique.
But what else are we supposed to do? Lens attachments like Olloclip are expensive, and yet a**ther thing we have to worry about carrying (or losing).
With this problem in mind, Asus developed the $399 Zenfone Zoom. According to the company, the zoom is the first and only smartphone available equipped with optical zoom. Meaning, instead of using software to essentially crop a photo to replicate zooming in on a subject, the zoom zooms in — just as your dad’s point and shoot does — using a ****** of lenses. Read more...
02-29-2016, 12:52 AM
Asus Zenfone Zoom's 3x optical zoom disappoints for shooting pics from afar
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