canon t3i question?

[JordanD]

hey if im using digital zoom in manual mode can i take a photo in digital zoom so it acts like a zoom or is it only for video?

 

[jimmyjamjar10101]

I'm not 100% certain, but I pretty sure you cannot use digital zoom for stills. You could take an image, crop, then resize your image though. That would produce similar results.

 

[John27]

What are you referring to as digital zoom? The t3i has no digital zoom that I am aware of. Remember digital zoom is just cropping, you can do that in post. If you are referring to zooming in while doing a live view shoot, yes you can do that, but it's not a zoom, the image will not be 'zoomed in' when shot. That is a feature for checking focus. For example, if you are shooting a portrait you might zoom in to the leading eye of the subject, and manually focus to make that leading eye razor sharp, producing a desirable focus results perhaps more accurately than a T3i can provide automatically. When you take the image though, it'll be of the entire subject, not just the eye.

 

[JordanD]

got it

 

[Railphotog]

The T3i can indeed use digital zoom, but only in movie mode and when the image size is set to 1920 x 1080 (full HD). Says so on page 152 of my manual any way.