Optical zoom performance

The PTZ lens provides strong zoom performance, letting owners punch in for detailed views of people, vehicles, and entrances while still maintaining clear, readable footage at higher magnifications.

Owners like that the floodlight’s telephoto lens adds meaningful extra detail compared with a single wide lens, and this tester highlights that zooming in on faces or plates at a distance still produces informative images rather than muddy crops.

Owners praise the S340’s 3X optical telephoto lens for pulling in detail at the far end of a driveway, and this review notes that the 8X hybrid zoom remains surprisingly useful for reading plates or faces without the image falling apart completely.