You've heard the terms but, when it comes to optical zoom vs digital zoom, what do they mean and which is best to use?

It will attach to the phone’s 200MP periscope cam and offer 8.7x optical zoom. Yesterday, vivo teased a photography kit for ...

According to tipster Majin Bu (via 9to5Mac), the iPhone 17 Pro series will have a telephoto camera that offers 3.5x, 5x, and even 7x optical zoom. The wording makes it slightly ambiguous as to how ...

All zoom lenses in film cameras and digital single lens reflex (DSLR) cameras are optical zoom. Digital point-and-shoot cameras as well as consumer and prosumer video camcorders have optical zoom ...

The largest and priciest of all the iPhone 15 models is also the one (and only one) that introduces the most intelligently implemented optical zoom camera in a phone that I've ever seen.

Apple's iPhone 17 Pro may swap its 5x telephoto zoom for a 48MP sensor with 3.5x optical zoom. It offers sharper portraits and up to 7x digital zoom.