I have what is called a bridge camera.  It is between a P & S camera and a full fledged DSLR.  The camera is a Panasonic DMC FZ 18 with a 28 MM lens and 27 times zoom.  What makes that so special you ask.  The camera sensor is small and that means it can have a small lens compared to a regular DSLR camera.  Of course it has some limitations of photo quality that I won't get into here because to me it is all about the zoom.  Let me show you.  Below is a picture of my camera and the lens.  Next to it is a DSLR camera and the lens it needs to take the picture at the same zoom level.

The camera at a full 8 megapixel is actually a 18 zoom but you can use what they call EZ zoom and that reduces the pixels and increases the zoom.  This is completely different from digital zoom and the camera still has 4x digital zoom left but I won't go there for now.  Some people say you can crop your picture to get the same pictures but I disagree.  Sometimes you can't see what is there so you would never crop a picture if you can't see the end result. 

Below is a flower in my back yard in Virginia Beach behind the Honey Bee golf course.  I am 20 feet away inside my house behind my window taking this shot.

The first picture is at 28 mm.  The second is at x 3 zoom.  The third is 18 zoom and the fourth is 27 zoom.

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