Conventional wisdom is that digital zoom in a camera is pointless because if you wanted to use digital zoom at all, you can simply do it when you are editing.

In this video, at 7'24" Tamara Gabriel demontrates that in-camera digital zoom can be better than post production digital zoom - she zooms into a dark area and immediately the Action 2 changes the exposure to suit the reframed image, and the dark area immediately becomes lighter.  During editing, you'd have to process the image in several ways to get the same effect.

Thanks for sharing.

There is another benefit to using digital zoom in some camera's.
(not sure if the A2 has this though).
Some can utilize a smaller portion of the sensor to get digital zoom and still remain the amount of pixels used.
(abeit losing lens resolution, but that is another matter)

Montfrooij Posted at 11-3 00:42
There is another benefit to using digital zoom in some camera's.
(not sure if the A2 has this though).
Some can utilize a smaller portion of the sensor to get digital zoom and still remain the amount of pixels used.

Is this the kind of technique they use with the Pocket 2 digital zoom? When I zoom in 1080p mode in Pocket 2, it doesn't seem to lose quality (at least not in a clearly visible manner when looking at it with just bare eyes).

I would argue that in Pocket 2's case, using the camera's own zoom is a better choice.

HGDC84 Posted at 11-3 04:36
Is this the kind of technique they use with the Pocket 2 digital zoom? When I zoom in 1080p mode in Pocket 2, it doesn't seem to lose quality (at least not in a clearly visible manner when looking at it with just bare eyes).

I would argue that in Pocket 2's case, using the camera's own zoom is a better choice.

I think it does.

Nice find.  Thanks for sharing.