On Tue, 23 Aug 2005 00:51:27 GMT, Brian Allen wrote:
I just wanted to be clear that I am not interested in any of the other FZ
cameras because they do not have ALL of the Pro90IS features, nor do any of
the other Canon cameras.

BCA

"Brian Allen" wrote in message
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I have been holding on getting a new ZLR until I found one that had all of
the features of the Canon Pro90IS that I currently use. I already get
fantastic 8x10 prints using this camera, but I wanted something with much
higher resolution and all of the features. the FZ30 is the first in the FZ
line to have all of the features.

I have seen many complaints already about noise issues with the FZ30. I
know the Canon Pro90IS, though old technology, produced good quality
images.

How does the picture noise of the FZ30 compare to that of the Pro90IS?

Out of curiousity, what features that you use on your current camera are
missing from the FZ20 or Canon S2IS? (Just wondering)

I'm not sure you can do a fair comparison of the noise levels of the two
cameras because of the factor of three or four difference in resolution
between them. A fairer comparison would be to take an FZ30 picture and
use a 2x2 binning to resize it down to something comparable to the
resolution of the 90IS. Without doing the test, I'd guess that the FZ30
would come out somewhat ahead; same physical size sensor, but both the
sensor and the signal processor are about 2 generations newer.

-dms