New Camera for Detailing Shots...

GSRstilez said:
I found my girlfriend's Kodak (4.0mp) to take inferior pictures to my old Sony Mavica MVC-CD300 (3.2mp). I think its more in how a MP is used, rather than the simple rating.
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As was mentioned before, that's probably a lens thing. The Sony's tend to have high quality Zeiss glass lenses, the Kodak may have had a cheaper or plastic lens. We have a 5MP Sony DSC something at work that takes nice pics, but I find the menus to be really a pain, as compared to the old sub-MP Mavica we had, which was easy, and took great pics in 1998, but now they look terrible :rolleyes: :)
 
GSRstilez said:
Tort: Were they of same brand, style, quality? I found my girlfriend's Kodak (4.0mp) to take inferior pictures to my old Sony Mavica MVC-CD300 (3.2mp). The Sony was a top of the line P+S with a ton of manual settings, her Kodak is more just a simple P+S with pre-programmed settings. I think its more in how a MP is used, rather than the simple rating.
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Her old camera was a Minolta Dimage Xi, the new one is a Sony (model number escapes me at the moment). The Sony is a much newer model, but they're both of decent quality, P+S cameras that provide good manual tweaks.



I agree that there's more to the picture quality than just the MP rating, but when you're cropping and resizing, you can't work with information that you don't have, if you take my meaning. For the way Cindi uses her camera in the classroom (quick candid shots, usually no setup, point, shoot, try to capture the little primates doing something interesting), the more information that's in the original image, the better.



Tort
 
I'm still learning my camera but I hope to have some car shots up soon. It needs a bath first. :)



I will shoot at full resolution and superfine compression.
 
tif file formats is better the jpg format, tif formats files are larger in size. tif will show in I.E or other brosers
 
I am not sure if the camera does TIFF yet...Still learning this thing. I'm an old analog film guy. ;)



I did post my shots in Click & Brag including a comparison shot with my Nikon F100 film camera.
 
SilverLexus- It's sorta tough for me to do a really accurate comparison between the two (and I know my monitor isn't perfectly calibrated, which sure doesn't help :o ) but I do think the Provia shots are just a little bit sharper, judging by the reflections of the house. The digitals are mighty good though and trying to compare different pictures, well, you know...they might even be equal, it's not like some big difference. I bet you're gonna get a lot of good use out of the digital.



Oh, BTW, you ever try Provia 400?
 
2000firebird said:
my kodak poops on thoes canon shots ;)
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SLR? DSLR? P+S? Prove it...I have yet to see a Kodak take better shots than a Canon (no offense). Kodak has been in the caboose (relatively speaking) for a while now. The one good thing they have going for them is a user friendly product.
 
but I do think the Provia shots are just a little bit sharper, judging by the reflections of the house.
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I feel the same way and this is with the slides on a pro scanner which introduces some dulling by itself (slides not aligned with scanner lens perfectly).



Still the Canon is fairly close. Now that I have the Canon, I may upgrade later to a D200 and we should get even better digital.



I'm also with Sean...Canon is hard to beat unless you have the 14mp Kodak DSLR.
 
I do feel that some Nikons have better image clarity and less noise at high ISO's than their Canon equivilants, but generally I agree with you guys - Canon is tough to beat overall. I have not had good luck with Kodaks. I sometimes wish my DSLR was less noisey at 1600ISO+ (we take a lot of concert photos), but that's what 1.4f lenses are for. :)
 
SilverLexus- Yeah, the good glass on the Nikon would make a difference.



And yeah, I'm pretty :scared: about trying to get decent scans (good enough to show detailing-quality detail) with my cheapie Epson scanner and slides...we'll see one of these days.



If you decide to go all-Canon you might look into the 5D with its full frame sensor. Its viewfinder is the only digital one I've liked so far and that's a pretty steep admission price!



Picus- You have much better eyes than I do if you can see that well through a DSLR viewfinder, even *with* a f1.4! You know, the ability to toggle to 1600iso and back down is one very appealing feature of the whole DSLR thing.
 
Accumulator - you get used to it. My wife and I have shot ~500 shows in the last two years with this body and the pictutes absolutely show how we've become more used to the gear as time went on (some of the early ones are downright embarassing). I'd imagine if I switched bodies right now I'd probably be lost for a few weeks. Really the only way to get usable shots at 1600ISO (with this body) is with a lens with a f/ of 1.8 or less or with image stabalization.



We'll probably upgrade soon, but like you said, the price of admission gets pretty steep once you get past the entry level DSLR's. :)
 
Picus said:
Accumulator - you get used to it. My wife and I have shot ~500 shows in the last two years with this body ..
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With that much experience I guess you *would* get used to it! Or else you'd have gotten *rid* of it by now ;)



Know what you mean about the acclimation period. Took me a while to get used to things rotating in different directions from what I'd been using forever, even when the new one was more logical. DSLRs are just *so* different from my old-school SLRs that I dunno how I'll ever get used to one...
 
2000firebird said:
my kodak poops on thoes canon shots ;)
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aint nothing poop on my cannon! :nono



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-Justin
 
Which one is that the 300 or the 350??



And i know that's nt the Stock lens.. what is it??? come on don't leve a brother out.



Here is my old cammera(taken with my new one)



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And My New one (taken with my old one)

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And a pic of the Baja by new cammera.

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