Why should digital zoom be ignored when buying a digital camera?
Simply because there is nothing digital zoom can do that you can’t easily do with a computer. Digital zoom is like cropping a picture, except it always crops evenly around the center and chooses between fixed sizes. Software allows you to crop any part an image and crop it to whichever size you want. This is much more flexible. Also, software can filter your image while cropping to reduce the degradation of image quality when resizing the cropped image.
