There’s a specific type of digital zoom which captures multiple frames and takes advantage of motion between frames to interpolate to get higher detail. This is rather limited because you need a lot of sharp successive frames just to get a solid 2-3x resolution with minimal extra noise.
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jeeva@lemmy.world 7 months agoHold up. Digital zoom is, in all the cases I’m currently aware of, just cropping the available data. That’s not reconstruction.
Otherwise, yep, I’m with you there.
Natanael@slrpnk.net 7 months ago
dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world 7 months ago
See this follow up:
lemmy.world/comment/9061929
Digital zoom makes the image bigger but without adding any detail (because it can’t). People somehow still think this will allow you to see small details that were not visible before.
faintbeep@lemm.ee 7 months ago
Also since companies are adding AI to everything, sometimes when you think you’re just doing a digital zoom you’re actually getting AI upscaling.
There was a court case not long ago where the prosecution wasn’t allowed to pinch-to-zoom evidence photos on an iPad for the jury, because the zoom algorithm creates new information that wasn’t there.