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S3 IS = anyone unhappy?
Andrew MacPherson wrote:
(measekite) wrote: the FZ7 or maybe the future FZ8 in about 6 months appear to be the EVFs of choice. FZ7 is only about 115k pixels though, like the S series. For the size and weight and inconvenience of the FZ50 you might as well consider a Canon DR XTi with the kit lense. Agreed. I know people say you lose the zoom range & IS, but by gaining IQ & ISO you can crop and end up with a similar result while gaining dSLR benefits elsewhere. It's an increasingly complicated price range to be buying in. That's another reason why the cheaper S3 appeals. :-) Andrew McP The best electronic viewfinder I've seen is the Minolta A2, which had VGA resolution (misleadingly described as "over 900,000 pixels" - it's actually 307,200 RGB pixels). Why this quality of EVF hasn't spear throughout the better cameras I don't know, although I suspect cost saving. You are fooling yourself if you think that a cropped DSLR with a kit lens can come anything close to a ZLR with a 400mm+ lens. The kit lens is 18-55mm. With the 1.6X sensor crop, that's about 88mm maximum. 10MP. to get 432mm focal length requires taking the central 1/5 of the image, so your 10MP becomes 400K pixels. To get similar zoom results would require a lens of at least 250mm actual focal length. By the way, the results from my 5MP Panasonic FZ5 appear noticeably sharper than those from a friend's 6MP Canon S3 IS, if that matters to you. David |
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(David J Taylor) wrote:
it's actually 307,200 RGB pixels). Nice pixel count. I love EVFs for their WYSIWYG performance. Plus folk look like right Noddys stood staring at the camera's LCD. ;-) You are fooling yourself if you think that a cropped DSLR with a kit lens can come anything close to a ZLR with a 400mm+ lens. I was thinking more in terms of a (real world) 200mm dSLR picture giving something similar to 400mm ZLR when IQ was taken into consideration. I might be being wildly optimistic. :-) the results from my 5MP Panasonic FZ5 appear noticeably sharper than those from a friend's 6MP Canon S3 IS In that price range I'd prefer the movie mode & AA batteries of the S3. Obviously that's a very personal choice though, because for me 6MP is more than enough, and has plenty of room for sharpening & shrinking. Andrew McP |
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Andrew MacPherson wrote:
[] I was thinking more in terms of a (real world) 200mm dSLR picture giving something similar to 400mm ZLR when IQ was taken into consideration. I might be being wildly optimistic. :-) You are! Take a look at: http://www.david-taylor.myby.co.uk/imaging/moon.htm http://www.clarkvision.com/imagedetail/moon-test1/ to see how a DSLR and good ZLR compare. the results from my 5MP Panasonic FZ5 appear noticeably sharper than those from a friend's 6MP Canon S3 IS In that price range I'd prefer the movie mode & AA batteries of the S3. Obviously that's a very personal choice though, because for me 6MP is more than enough, and has plenty of room for sharpening & shrinking. Andrew McP Personal choice - but I am delighted to be free of AA batteries. Of course, I do wish that my cameras etc. all took a standard single Li-Ion battery and could use a common charger! G David |
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(David J Taylor) wrote:
Of course, I do wish that my cameras etc. all took a standard single Li-Ion battery and could use a common charger! G I'd be *very* happy with a superior replacement to the ubiquitous AA, but until then I'd rather have one battery format and one charger to think about. I have enough wall-warts already to last me a lifetime... and then some! Andrew McP... wondering just how many redundant wall-warts there are in the world. Billions? |
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