However, more adventurous souls might like to jump on the back of a scooter and zoom up and down the mountainside.
But don't expect to see the shares of online advertising companies, and their content partners, to zoom up any time soon.
Historically, commodity prices, particularly gold, have been instant indicators when a central bank prints too much money (commodity prices uniformly zoom up) or too little (commodity prices generally fall).
These features are particularly useful for getting up close with a Super-Resolution Zoom of up to 48x zoom magnification at full resolution, capturing a series of images of a fast-moving subject with high-speed sequential shooting, or in Telephoto Macro mode when users are shooting the rich detail of small subjects like insects from inches away.
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With a 24mm wide angle lens and an incredible 30x optical zoom (up to 720mm) packed into a compact design, the PowerShot SX500 IS enables users to pull subjects in close and capture stunning, high-quality images with a 16.0 megapixel sensor and powerful DIGIC 4 image processer.
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The powerful zoom brings you up close to whimsical subjects like butterflies from a safe distance, so you don't scare them.
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Users can also utilize the 3.6x optical zoom for close up shots and the camera's Dual Image Stabilization to reduce blur.
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The KONICA MINOLTA HD LENS assures high quality images, while a 40x Optical Zoom enables close-up shots from far away, with no sacrifice in optical quality.
Scalado Album is very easy to use and has features like super fast browsing and viewing, instant zoom and pan into up to 200 megapixels images, smart sorting by places, search nearby, date and others, fast and smart search and find features, animated thumbnails for videos, and much more.
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The Nokia 808 PureView is also capable of capturing a mind-boggling amount of small detail -- this is what allows it to offer up to three times lossless zoom on its 5-megapixel images, with enough pixels from a cropped selection to make up an image.
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With its compact design and powerful 16x optical zoom, the PowerShot SX160 IS is a versatile camera with a dynamic optical zoom range from 28mm wide up to 448mm, perfect for everyday use.
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Both options feature lens-mounted zoom toggles, pop-up flashes and dedicated video capture buttons, but only the P520 offers a dedicated mode dial, and if you're planning to make changes on the fly, that's really a necessity.
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Account and security settings also make it easy for you to control digital pan, tilt and zoom of cameras, set up motion zones for individual cameras, and create and manage e-mail and mobile-phone motion alerts or desktop notifications of important events.
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Aside from simply feeling more solid that the cheaper model, the SX500 also offers up features like Zoom Framing Assist, which can be accessed via a devoted button on the front of the camera, letting you zoom out to help find your shooting subject -- a function it performs quite quickly.
The camera itself looks very similar to the P310 -- there's a nifty mode dial up top, along with a zoom toggle, control dial, power button, stereo mics and a pop-up flash.
France, Japan, Spain, Germany, all have trains that zoom through the countryside at speeds up to 217mph (350kph).
And if that massive spreadsheet with the tiny font is too small, just zoom in for a close-up view.
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Any number of people standing in front of it can put their hands on the screen and "paint, " or pull up satellite maps and zoom in on different locations, open and collapse multiple windows of Web video.
Evidently Dennis Hayes had so much confidence in his company that he figured the stock would zoom upwards, taking the conversion price up with it.
It's not all touchscreen, though -- several buttons (controlling a pop-up flash, power, zoom toggle, and shutter release) are also part of the somewhat bulky build.
The wide-angle lens give allows expanded field of view needed for group shots, ensuring everyone is in frame even in a close-up shot whilst the powerful zoom makes it possible to capture detailed photos even when the subjects are of a distance.
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Users curious to virtually explore one of the world's most reclusive states can zoom into the heart of Pyongyang and pull up photographs of the Kumsusan Memorial Palace, which houses the bodies of the revered former leaders Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il.
You and your friends can simultaneously type on it, fingerpaint, play on digital piano keys, call up YouTube videos and Flickr images and zoom in on and rotate a map of the world.
The built-in IR sensor does a bang-up job of quickly activating and deactivating the zoom function, making the whole affair a breeze.
Zoom can sort a database of 28 million people using up to 20 related criteria, including industry, job title, geography, education and type of source document.
You zoom around in this rich, icon-filled space and call up digital photos, Web pages, science projects or PowerPoint presentations.
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.
Tilt-zoom gives you a new way to zoom within the browser and picture gallery app, whereby you tilt the phone up to enlarge an image or down to shrink it.
Check out the first scene in the James Bond film Skyfall, and watch the tailpipes on the mysterious black Audi zoom ahead as Eve Moneypenny, played by Naomi Harris, attempts to keep up.
The real hotness is going on in the former: the T30 packs a 3-inch touchscreen LCD, 3x zoom and 7.1 megapixel CCD, along with face recognition for beefing up auto focus and auto exposure, high ISO digital shake reduction and some stylus-based frivolities.
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