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Avoid the zoom!

Avoid the zoom!

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Avoid the zoom!

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- I was out somewhere the other day and I saw a woman shooting with her smart phone camera. She was taking a photo, I can't remember what. Something moving like a roller skater or something and she was doing the zoom thing where she was pinching and zooming in with her phone and then taking the shot and I really wanted to go up to her and say don't use the zoom feature on your smart phone, but I didn't know her, so I didn't really feel like it was my place. I don't know you either, but I'm still going to kind of vent this frustration on you right now, and tell you, don't use the zoom feature on your smart phone. And rather than explain it, I just want to show you why right now. I'm going to take a picture turret on this building over here. So I'm lining up a shot. I am not doing anything. I'm just shooting it as is, but now I'm going to zoom in, and I'm going to zoom in to get just the top of the turret and that's…

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