wrote:

I sick of seeing all these film Vs Digital pages on the net comparing
film and digital SLRs. For a start no matter what result they get
(either in favour of film or digital) its nearly always inacurate since
they are comparing the images rather than prints and the film images
are rarly Drum scanned and even if they were they are still 3rd party
images, I am bored of them and no longer bother.

What I would like to see is a Film Compact Vs Digital Compact test, Ill
be putting my Fuji F10 up against my Olypus XA soon. Ill then get the
results printed at 9x6 and then scan the prints, Pointless I know, but
its really to settle an argument I got into and to be honist at ISO 400
(witch the test will be caried out at) I think the result is a forgone
conclusion.

The Fuji F10 has a much smaller sensor size than 35 mm film frame. In a
practical sense, that will mean more apparent depth of field in any
settings matching your Olympus XA. So basically any images with lots of
background detail might actually seem sharper from the Fuji F10. Of
course, at 9" by 6" there will be very little difference between the two
cameras. Maybe you should try out a larger print.

Ciao!

Gordon Moat
A G Studio
http://www.allgstudio.com