Why digital zoom may not be completely evil after all

Cropped after the event on the left, digital zoom on the right.
Credit: appstorm

We've all heard it: "Digital zoom is useless. It doesn't give you anything you can't get by cropping in an image editor later." You may have said it yourself. I have.

appstorm makes the case that it's not always so simple.

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