EOS Rebel T7 zooming on LCD doesn't result in zoomed image on card

[Djchr]

I don’t know if this is the right community, but I have an EOS T7 with a Canon EF 50mm lens. When I use the camera’s zoom button, I see the camera zoom in on the subject via the viewer, but the resulting photo shows the subject unzoomed. 

[wq9nsc]

I am assuming you are shooting in live view mode and using magnified view for focusing, this is just a focusing aid and does not affect image capture.  The T7 doesn't have a zoom feature without using a zoom lens so the image will be captured at the focal length of the lens.

Rodger

[kvbarkley]

i.e., There is no "digital zoom" on the T7.

You will need to crop in post.

If this is something you do often, an actual zoom, like the EF-S 18-135 or EF-S 55-250 might meet your needs better and give you better quality, since cropping lowers the resolution, while an actual zoom will yield all the pixels your camera can provide.