Recently I bought Nikon S10. I have gone through its user manual & it DOES specify about its Digital zoom feature. The problem is: When I press Zoom button, the zoom does not get converted into Digital zoom once it has completely done with the Optical zoom. Like any other Nikon camera, my camera also has a Zoom BAR on its display screen which is 75-25 % divided. 75% shows Optical zoom limit & 25% represents Digital zoom. My camera鈥檚 zoom bar stretch never enters Digital zoom area..
So you think I have got nay faulty piece?
One of my friend has Nikon coolpix L1 but his digicam also does not show Digital zoom in spite if user manual鈥檚 specification. Unfortunately it does (4x). Someday camera makers will stop with the idiotic digital zoom stuff and let the user do all the cropping in the software that comes with the camera.
I just checked my Nikon Coolpix SQ and it does have a little bar on the W / T bar. When you are zooming out it should stop when it reaches the end of the optical zoom range, then while continuing to hold the "T" button down, it will continue moving and the white bar turns yellow on the SQ, so accidental activating the digital zoom can be avoided | 