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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Psionicist" data-source="post: 2812605" data-attributes="member: 1874">I would actually make the bold claim here that optical zoom is not at all that important, at least for most people. The zoom option is mostly a toy people use because they are to lazy to walk closer, not because they really need to <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />Let's face it, most people use cameras to take photos of other people, or groups of people. There are of course some who like to shoot birds or hide in the bushes and photograph half naked woman at the beach, but most of the photos "most people" take are indoors, or at events, with lots of people around. For example, birthdays, weddings, at vacations. For these kind of photos, wide angle is more important than zoom. Zoom is basically useless here. Wide angle is almost the oppsite of what we mean with "zoom". Instead of "zooming in" at some detail, we use wide angle mode to "zoom out". Imagine you are in a living room. There are 10 other people here. You want to take a group shot. You want all these people in a single photo, you don't want to zoom in at a single persons ear. You zoom out as far as you can with your new 5x zoom camera, but when you look in the finder you notice a few of your friends won't fit in the photo. You can only do one thing here, walk backwards. And this is not always possible if there's a wall behind you. What you need is a wide enough option at "1x zoom". 28 mm or so. There are consumer cameras nowadays where the widest mode is 50 mm. This is useless indoors, for large enough objects (such as groups of people).I am not saying zoom is not important, it's fun and useful sometimes. But I would rather take a 28mm 2x zoom camera than a 50mm 10x camera.</blockquote>

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