Without getting too technical about this, there are two types of zoom: one using adjustable lenses, and the other being done digitally. Decent cameras with adjustable lenses are well worth zooming so long as there is enough light. Digital zooming, found typically on cheap point-and-shoot cameras, and, I assume, on portable devices such as mobile phones, is just not worth doing. You can achieve exactly the same result afterwards by using photoshop. Digital zooming is merely a form of cropping.
Don't, therefore, make too much of the "didn't zoom" thing, unless the equipment was middle market SLRs or the like, in which case there would be no excuse.
Mike
Don't, therefore, make too much of the "didn't zoom" thing, unless the equipment was middle market SLRs or the like, in which case there would be no excuse.
Mike
