Tyondai Braxton, Ian Williams and Dave Konopka all zoom full-speed from the minute they hit the stage, manipulating enough equipment for three one-man bands.

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Others reported breathlessly on the ease with which they were suddenly able to zoom about the country (these being the days before speed limits, one reporter claimed to have driven the new road at 157mph in an Aston Martin).

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These features are particularly useful for getting up close with a Super-Resolution Zoom of up to 48x zoom magnification at full resolution, capturing a series of images of a fast-moving subject with high-speed sequential shooting, or in Telephoto Macro mode when users are shooting the rich detail of small subjects like insects from inches away.

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