Current mood:

bitchy

Zoolandish
I was at the Copenhagen Zoo last week, and I of course had to try out my new "digital camera", that is; my phone. SonyEricsson claims that the K700i model, which I am the proud owner of, is both a phone and camera. Well, all I can say is; that it's not both, and it's a good phone... but nevertheless, I'll post a couple of pictures from Zoo right here:











When browsing through the fifty-something pictures I took that day in Zoo, I realised something: Digital zoom on the K700i doesn't make any sense. The max resolution of the camera is 640x480, and the phone also has 4 x digital zoom. However, when you take pictures in 640x480, you cannot zoom at all. If you move down to the resulution 320x240, which most of the pictures above is taken in, you have 2 x digital zoom. Only if you move down to stamp-size; 160x120, you have 4 x digital zoom.

I took a picture of the ice bears above first in 640x480, of course with no zoom, since it not possible in that resolution. I then thought to myself: "Aha! Now I want a closeup of the bears, so I'll goto 320x240 and zoom in!" So I did, and the result was the picture above. If you compare the large picture without zoom with the small picture using zoom, you realize that digital zoom doesn't make any sense! Try it.