anon(1733)
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While not the safest here's one of the lake on my way home from work. Taken while driving 40 mph. Not bad for moving I thought.

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I feel like an ***** so want to know if I'm alone... I had Samsung phones before my pixel 2 and I just don't see how this camera or interface is better. I take a couple of pictures from a concert at a small venue. From the back I will zoom in. I'm steady and my pix on the pixel just look crappy. And if I zoom in on the already zoomed pic it looks worse. Whereas w my Samsung it looked great. Do I need to adjust settings? I just don't see the better bits of the camera. Except for maybe portrait mode. Am I alone here?
A really good explanation. Thanks...Shrano, Which Samsung phone(s) did you have? Did they have a two lens system?
Optical zoom is true zoom, using actual magnifying glass lenses to accomplish it. Digital zoom is simply enlarging a photos digitally so that the extra pixels are extrapolated from the existing picture -- basically, the computer makes them up. Digital zoom can be useful in a limited way in certain situations, but there will always be a degradation of detail.
If your Samsung did not have two lenses, then they are just using an algorithm that you like better to invent the missing pixels.
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