>>4381442Unless your phone has a seperate telephoto lens, zooming on that is what we'd call 'digital zoom', where the camera basically just crops further in. Digital zoom normally looks like shit because you're simply discarding the outer portions of the picture and making your pixels and noise bigger, which looks like shit.
Actual zoom is called 'optical zoom' and can only be done with a lens that changes focal length. Technically speaking if you had a lens that doesn't zoom in and out, but was a "zoomed in" field-of-view like a 100mm lens, this is also optical zoom. Optical zoom retains all the clarity and detail you desire and is the biggest advantage real cameras have over phones.
>This s23, google says has the same 26mm lens26mm *equivelant* to what is called 'full-frame', which is a kind of standard everyone uses to easily judge the field-of-view a lens will produce. Your actual phone lens will be something like 5mm.
>Canon R100Is a Canon R50 with no articulating screen, less buttons, and an older sensor. If you are going to buy one I highly, HIGHLY recommend you just spend the extra $100 and get the R50.
I will be real with you though, either one of those and the kit lens it comes with will be leauges ahead of your phone. Don't even bother buying a new lens, just use the kit lens. If you find a limitation later because of that lens (which you might or might not), then you can consider buying other lenses, but not before you reach that point.
