Clear Image Zoom

To give you a little more range, Sony includes its digital Clear Image Zoom, which doubles this camera's zoom range to 10x, but without a reduction in resolution. At small sizes (top), the photos are clearly better than you'd get with a traditional digital zoom. But if you view them at 100 percent (bottom), subjects look like oil paintings. Basically, Sony gives you a usable digital zoom, but you're not going to get even closer by enlarging and cropping in.