Because not everyone realizes how zoom ranges work? These are the same people who buy a 10 megapixel camera to print 4x6s, and will buy a camera that lists "HD quality" over one that doesn't, even if both were the same price and had the same megapixel count.
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F3 @ Apr 22nd 2008 1:30PM
Why list the 35mm focal length equivalents and then state the zoom factor? Have people gotten that stupid?
aoi tsuki @ Apr 22nd 2008 7:52PM
Because not everyone realizes how zoom ranges work? These are the same people who buy a 10 megapixel camera to print 4x6s, and will buy a camera that lists "HD quality" over one that doesn't, even if both were the same price and had the same megapixel count.