My Olympus C-750 (admittedly old) frames _optical_ zoom just fine through the viewfinder. It's not an optical viewfinder. It's a lens focusing on a small lcd screen, that shows the same thing that the CCD sees, just like the large lcd screen on the camera's back. The viewfinder sees what you will get, although I've never checked if the borders are exact. My digital zoom is cropping after the picture is on the computer. The memory card is plenty big enough to shoot all the pictures I want using the entire CCD array.
Fred Holmes At 04:35 PM 4/16/2009, db wrote: >All the viewfinders on point and shoot (non SLR) cameras do not function thru >the lens so they do not and can not in fact tell you where the borders of your >shot will be. >The LCD image does do that I believe... > >db ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
