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Sunil Hajra (sunil025-hajra) 0 pts

August 26, 2007 3:29 AM

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From how many Meters distance I can take photo by 12x Zoom Camera.

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bukit97 (bukit97) 12611 pts

August 27, 2007 2:03 AM

There is no hard and fast rule as to ' how far away you should stand' to take a picture if you have an 18X or 12X zoom camera.

The reason being that 18X and 12X are the maximum zoom available, while you can also set it to the minimum zoom/ wide angle to take pictures as close as 0.1m-∞ (wide), 1.2m-∞ (tele) or 1cm closest focus (super macro) in the case of Olympus 550UZ.

In between, you can use any intermediate zoom to compose your picture, whether it is 10 meters away, 20 meters away and so on.

So 18X zoom does not bind you to using the full zoom power and there is no fixed distances that you have to follow to take your pictures.

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Sunil Hajra (sunil025-hajra) 0 pts

September 13, 2007 8:38 AM

I took a photo, when my wife was 2 meters away from me. 2nd photo also want to take as like 1st photo, when my wife is 50 meters away from me. for this mater which zoom ( 5X, 8X ) is appropriate for me.

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TomH (tharrison) 9645 pts

September 13, 2007 8:52 AM

Sunil -- if you're looking for a specific number, you can use the zoom multiplication factor as a very rough guide. So if your picture was composed properly at 2 meters away at it's widest (least zoomed) setting, and you want the same composition from 50 meters, that 25 times further away than the first photo, you would need a camera with 25x zoom, which (except for specialized SLR lenses) doesn't exist. Perhaps you could use the digital zoom capabilities to further multiply the optical zoom of your camera.

Tom

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Sunil Hajra (sunil025-hajra) 0 pts

September 14, 2007 8:21 AM

I took a photo, when my wife was 2 meters away from me and I took only her full body, not necessary any background and I want to print that photo 24 inch height X 20 inch wide with best Quality. 2nd photo also want to take as like 1st photo, when my wife is 50 meters away from me. for this mater which zoom ( 5X, 8X ) or Lenses is appropriate for me.

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TomH (tharrison) 9645 pts

September 14, 2007 9:08 AM

As I said in my previous answer, you would need a 25x zoom to get the same picture from 50 meters as you would to get a picture shot at the camera's widest angle (which you might call 1x zoom) from 2 meters. The "zoom multiplier" of a camera (5x, 8x, etc.) measures the magnification of the lens relative to it's least magnified ("widest") setting.

Since there is no (fixed lens) camera that offers that degree of magnification, you would need to use digital zoom, or crop the photo later in a photo editor program. In both cases, you would be reducing the resolution of the photo (number of pixels), and if printed at 24 x 20 inches, it's possible that you would begin to notice the pixels in the image. To minimize this, I recommend you consider one of the new 18x zoom cameras such as the Panasonic Lumix FZ18. I have the LZ3, which is a 10x zoom camera and have found it an exceptionally good camera. This would be a case where having a camera with more than 8 or so megapixels could make a difference.

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