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Figure 1. Image in Wide-angle Mode.
Figure 2 shows the same image taken using the zoom feature. The camera throws away the por-
tion of shown in red; however it processes the image so that it has the same number of pixels
before it stores the file. If you enlarge two images of the same scene, one wide-angle and one
zoomed (you’ll of course have to magnify the wide-angle one more), you will see that both have
about the same resolution, meaning the added pixels in the zoomed image have not improved its
quality. Now do the same experiment, but instead of zooming, move closer to your subject, and
you’ll find that the latter image does have more detail.
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