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Came across this today....the Nikon Coolpix P900 with a built in 83x digital zoom lens. Some of you may have seen this, but it's the first for me and I was...floored.

 

Here's a GIF

 

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:o  :o  :o

 

And here's a few youtube link:

 

9 km zoom - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qc270Mx9vbU

The moon - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mfshAzV0FN4

 

Thought I'd share this crazyness. 

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This would be quite crazy indeed if it was a digital zoom; it is optical though. 4.3–357 mm, or 24–2000 mm in 35 mm terms.

 

The P900 features a 4x digital zoom on top of the 83x optical zoom but as far as I know that wasn’t even used here. A 83x digital zoom would reduce the resolution from the original 16 MP to 56 x 43 pixels or 0.0024 MP.

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