GoPro’s do NOT ‘Zoom’. End Of.

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This ‘myth’ is asked in the GoPro forums so often it requires a separate story (although I have covered it in other stories about using GoPros).

The question asked is about GoPro cameras ‘zooming’

Simple answer. They don’t. End of.

The lens in a GoPro is of the fixed type, designed so that everything possible in the field of view stays in focus. When you invoke the so-called ‘Zoom’ on a GoPro, what it does is electronically blow up the picture size (and therefore the individual pixels) and then crop the image, again electronically, to give the ILLUSION of a zoom.

What it does in simple terms is distort the original image.

Very ugly, very ugly indeed.

So if you want to ‘zoom’ in on a subject, either move closer to it, or better, get a camera with an lens that has that function optically, NOT electronically.

 

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