you nailed it Coley... just doing the best i can with the digital zoom, but, like you stated, all you are is enhancing the image through the lense on the cameras computer, not actually using the lense to zoom... and computer enhancement will never zoom with the quality of optical zoom... i wish i had the money to upgrade, but i already have thousands of dollars in cameras, the unfortunate part, is that they are 35 and 110 mm film cameras, not digital cameras...

the camera i would like to really use, is the Hasseblad of my fathers with the Zeiss lens, but, unfortunately, not many people if any at all, process 110 mm film anymore.. i would have to go to a custom shop, and that would cost ALOT of money... not nearly as much as the digital backs tho, they are about 15 grand for them... my dad paid around 4k for the camera i have... a new Hasseblad H4D, is 44,000 dollars, i would much rather buy a race car or a boat before i ever did that ...

i may end up getting one of the nice Nikons that are around 1200, they are a digital SLR camera, and i can get huge telephoto lenses for them, but again, they will be spendy....

all my camera is is a Fuji S2940 14mp 18X Optical 100X digital, and was only 2-250... it takes great photos up close, and great video (720 HD), but doesnt compare to higher end cameras...

here are some pics using just the Optical zoom from a race i went to last year, you can see the quality the camera can produce without using Digital zoom...





















with a better camera, i have no doubt i could get 10 times better photos... just working with what i have for the moment tho