is a binocular’s power magnification number the same as a camera’s zoom power?

i want to buy a consumer binocular and their magnification power all varies between 6 to 12. IE: 10×50
1. Is this the same as say a 10x optical zoom digital camera?
2. does a binocular 10×50 means the zoom is fixed at 10x? while a camera, the zoom is flexible, from 1x to 10x, im I [...]

What is the lowest magnification I would need to clearly make out Saturn’s rings?

I’m about to treat myself to some binoculars. I’ve seen some decent looking zoom binoculars (I know zoom bins aren’t quite as good as fixed mag ones) varying from 10 to 100 times magnification and from 50 to 100mm aperature. Most of the time I’d probably use them on the lowest power for looking at [...]

What is the difference between a camera’s optical zoom and a magnification in a binocular?

For e.g. an 8x optical zoom in a camera and an 8x magnification in a 8×40 binocular?? Is there any difference between these 2, or are they the same??

84 Times Magnification Mobile Phone.

I carefully positioned my Samsung SGH-J700 mobile phone with 1.3 megapixel, 4 times digital zoom against my £10 Praktica 21 times zoom binoculars and took a photograph at 84 times magnification. The tree is a Japanese Cherry Tree. … SGH-J700 “mobile phones” binoculars megapixel zoom praktica technology experiments fun gadgets cameras lenses gardens “Japanese trees” [...]