There are two types of zoom.. digital zoom, which he thought was mostly worthless, stretching the image out and making it fuzzier, and optical zoom, which is more like the zoom on a 35 mm camera and actually can gain you better closeup pictures, that are clearer and keep the details crisp in your picture.
I'm sure others could explain it better, hopefully that makes sense.
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I'm sure others could explain it better, hopefully that makes sense.