(But dang it, Doug, when are we going to convince you that in-camera digital zoom is terrible, and you're better off doing the crop/scale on your PC at home?).
I don't think you will.
I expected not.
I compose my pictures in the camera.
Likewise -- to the limits of my optics, and my ability to physically move closer to/farther from the subject.
I don't take wide-view pictures with the idea that later I can get rid of the stuff I didn't want in the first place.
Well, technically, you
are taking a wide-view picture, regardless of what the viewfinder is showing you. Once you hit the limits of the physical optics of your lens, that's what you get. Digital zoom is simply selecting a smaller region of the sensor pixels, and interpolating data -- exactly like doing a crop/scale in image-processing software on a wide-view picture, only using a (usually) worse resampling algorithm due to hardware constraints, for the sake of immediacy.
If you're happy with the quality of your digital zoom, though, stick with it.
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