Does anyone else feel kinda lied to? (Camera)

[nique0201]

For me if I cover the outer it and I hit 2X I see nothing. I go back to 1X it switches. If I cover it with my fingers from time to time I can move faster than the software and you can see it switch from outer to inner digital zoom. Right now I don't have another phone or camera where I can record it. I hoped I could go home early but looks like I will pull a double.

Yea super weird. I'll check tomorrow outside in daylight and hope o have better results. It'll bother me if it's not utilizing telephoto for most of the zoomed in pics.

 

[Spere]

Here is a video from YouTube showing how the zoom works: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aaG6OAuk_KQ&feature=youtu.be

 

[harveydent]

Ok I got it to switch but I basically had to aim the camera at a light bulb to get it to register. I'm in a what I consider well lit room. And it wouldn't make the switch. There must have to be a crap ton of light to trigger it... Or maybe it just has to be white light.

Yeah I used daylight as my "well-lit scene". I've found that even if through our naked eyes they look the same, cameras need even more light (like a strobe or a flash). I've tested with my mirrorless ILC shooting out my window during the day and getting painless point and shoot shots, but aiming the same camera indoors into a lightbox with three 100-watt bulbs blaring at it and the ILC will still struggle to take a good picture, often having to pump up the ISO so much the picture gets grainy or slowing the shutterspeed too much the image gets blurry.

Same thing happening with the Note 8, since the wide/main lens has better low light capability, it will test both the wide and zoom lens and will often get a better shot with the wide lens, even if it has to crop and zoom it.