In my Android app, I need to convert the current zoom value of the camera to magnification. I am trying to understand what getMaxZoom() corresponds to in terms of magnification. For example, my camera has a maximum zoom value of 60. It obviously doesn't mean that the magnification is 60 times the original view. There must be a conversion that one can apply. Regards.
You can think of these as the possible zoom stops that the camera can support. The actual magnification is available through getZoomRatios(), which provide a list of what magnification is available for each level in 1/100 increments.
So if getMaxZoom() returns 5, the call to getZoomRatios() might return a list with the following values:
100, 150, 200, 225, 250
meaning that zoom level 0 is magnified 1x, zoom level 1 is magnified 1.5x, zoom level 2 is magnified 2x, zoom level 3 is 2.25x, and zoom level 4 magnified 2.5x.