The film is famous for a camera trick Hitchcock invented to represent Scotty's vertigo - a simultaneous zoom-in and pull-back of the camera that creates a disorientating depth of field.
This ultra-zoom camera comes with built-in GPS capabilities as well, allowing photographers to log their journey with an easy-to-use display.
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With a stylish DSLR-style design and handling, the power-packed Cyber-shot HX300 offers photographers long-zoom capabilities in a compact, versatile package.
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Using this mode allows you to easily review the shots you're taking at a macro level, with the ability to pinch-and-zoom in tight on images to inspect minute details.
The COOLPIX P330 offers a useful 5x wide angle to telephoto (24mm-120mm, 35mm equivalent) zoom and cutting-edge features in a sleek, portable design for exceptional images and HD video.
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Whether you're traveling, at a family function, or on the sideline of a sporting event, the new, powerful SZ-12 gives you the flexibility to zoom right in and shoot brilliant close-ups without sacrificing versatility and image quality.
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There are a couple of related key features here: first we have the zoom bar in the album app -- you hold down your finger to prompt the bar, and then you can zoom in and out with your vertical scrolling action.
With a built-in Fujinon wide angle 23x zoom lens, superior low-light performance, and excellent sensitivity (F11 at 2000 lux), the GY-HM650 has ideal optics for challenging shooting environments.
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The demos were limited, but showed an ability to pan and zoom around a 3-D in-game scene.
The typical camera is a Samsung color CCD model with a power zoom lens in a weather-resistant housing.
Prof Wedeen used visualisation software that enabled him to fly around and through these pathways - even to zoom in to see intricate details.
As with all online search technology, Zoom still suffers from garbage-in, garbage-out syndrome. (One out of those six results turned up a guy who lived in Florida.) Company searches can be even shoddier.
The Pre Rec (retro cache) feature continuously records and stores up to five seconds of footage in cache memory to help prevent missed shots of breaking news, while a second trigger and servo zoom control on the built-in handle makes it easy to record while holding the camera at low or high angles.
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Zoom in, pan out, and rotate using multi-touch in any conditions and even with most gloves.
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Such as a photo-heavy newsletter from Fab.com: when viewing such an email Google, like Apple, lets me zoom in to view more details in the app and better-read the text.
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The new flagship camera in the WB long-zoom series makes it easy for users to achieve excellent quality pictures from a camera that is stylish and classic in design.
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Shroud 2.0 allows users to zoom in on any part of the high-resolution digital scan of the shroud (first produced in 2008) and download more detailed close-ups for a fee.
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And if that massive spreadsheet with the tiny font is too small, just zoom in for a close-up view.
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Like the Kobo, the Story HD can also zoom in and pan PDFs -- the process is a little tedious, but it's a handy feature nonetheless.
First up for the camcorders is the HC-V210 with 72x zoom, power OIS and full HD, all in a small, discreet form -- ideal for light casual use.
You zoom around in this rich, icon-filled space and call up digital photos, Web pages, science projects or PowerPoint presentations.
The TV connect allows you to control your TV just like a tablet - tap, swipe, zoom in, zoom out, select or type.
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Today, first-class observation cars with panoramic windows let leaf-peeping tourists zoom through the hill country in one day.
The 28mm wide-angle lens with 5x optical zoom aids in capturing great shots from a distance.
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With cash a bit tighter and industry contacts harder to come by these days, Zoom's lower-end service has come in handy.
It blows the doors off the puny iPhone, which restricts you to two-finger pushing and pinching to zoom in on and navigate Web pages and photos.
This makes it easy to browse the Web using Google Chrome without enlarging text, look at detail-rich pictures without having to zoom in, and watch a show without straining your eyes.
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He took data from the MRI and used software to create a three-dimensional simulation so that, video-game style, he can zoom in and out of the colon and look at it in detail.
The grubby, high-ISO 1080i video above can't transmit this experience -- all we could do is zoom in on a detail and then zoom out again to show how small a proportion it was of the total image.
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Once it arrived, we used the touchscreen to zoom in and scroll across the document -- handy features for those who need to read word documents on the go, but don't want to rely on their tiny phone screen.
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