Quote Originally Posted by Rapture
Digital zoom is preferred over optical zoom. .
I disagree. Digital zoom is an electronic zoom (meaning it zooms on the pixel element not the image) so you have less pixels to use meaning a less sharp picture. Optical zoom uses the lenes to focus and zoom in/out meaning all the pixels on the element are available to record the image (which means a sharper image with more pixels to work with when you start cropping and increasing the size).