104From the area in red outline in the illustration the resulting image isproduced. It has the same pixel density as a full sized image sizetherefore the resulting maximum print size is much smaller. (divide imagewidth x 300 to get actual print size for normal photo prints!)If you look closely at the set up menu it gives you a clue!At 12M 4000 x 3000 pixel, A2 print 16 x 20 inchAt 8M 3624 x 2448 pixel, A3 print 11 x 14 inchAt 5M 2560 x1920 pixel, A4 print 10 x 8 inchSo what you are getting is a smaller file size only, with the applied digitalcrop. You would get the same result if you physically printed the full size16 x 20 inch print from the 4000 x 3000 image and the guillotined it to the11 x 14 size. The results would be identical!It is however not the same as “digital zoom”. Digital zoom works by pixelinterpolation – method by which when a digital image is enlarged thescaling software “guesses” mathematically what the pixel colors wouldbe for the area between the original image and the enlarged one.Effectively the image is “made up” and hence always looks slightly“pixelated” where these extra pixels have been created.If you limit the amount of digital zoom to 1.5 and if you are only using theoutput for small prints, HDTV or web images they will be of sufficientquality as seen above. It is a convenience factor only though as thiscould always be done in post production editing.The “Digital cropped image”
