It's a zoom-zoom Ferrari, lava lamp, Sly Stone aesthetic, if you will.
The Easyshare-One might just be the big digital camera surprise of CES. It's only a 4 megapixel camera with 3x optical zoom and full motion video capture, but it's everything else about this camera that's dropping jaws.
The Coolpix 4800 has a resolution of "only" four megapixels, but they do toss in an 8.3x optical zoom lens (it's actually the smallest digital camera with that much optical zoom), which is nice since once most consumers realize they don't need more than four or five megapixels stuff like optical zoom and lens quality is going to be become a bigger and bigger deal.
Atop the controller sits an infrared sensor which activates a game's zoom in or scope function when it detects a user's looking down the barrel.
Since a final 8- or 5-megapixel photo usually contains enough detail for printing and is easier to store and transmit, it's possible to use those 41 megapixels to zoom in or stabilize the image without resorting to interpolation and losing information.
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It's worth noting that Amazon's PDF reader lacks a zoom function which makes many PDFs entirely unreadable on the device.
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Twiddling the zoom now only changes device volume, as it does anywhere except within Samsung's own camera app.
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It's enhanced by Active Mode, which ensures that handheld movies look smooth and steady at all zoom ratios.
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At any time you can zoom or pause the process to see what's going on and what images it's grabbing.
Like the Kobo, the Story HD can also zoom in and pan PDFs -- the process is a little tedious, but it's a handy feature nonetheless.
It's a nice option to have, but chances are you will shoot in 720p more often because of the zoom option.
It's not all touchscreen, though -- several buttons (controlling a pop-up flash, power, zoom toggle, and shutter release) are also part of the somewhat bulky build.
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