Logan -- digital zoom on cameras are bad. It's not even a "real" zoom, all it does is enlarges the picture, similar to if you took the image in your graphic program and enlarged it. It looses quailty. My powershot only has digital zoom on it as well, but since digital zoom isn't even "real" zoom, I disabled the feature from being used.

If you want to get a zoom on your camera, get one with OPTICAL zoom