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On 29/04/2014 23:00, A Moose in Love wrote:
I'd like to purchase a new digital camera. My Mum likes my old one, so I'm giving it to her. My main criteria for a camera is picture quality. I don't need a lot of gadgets. I was thinking of something Panasonic between $250 and $500. I like that they have Leica lenses. However, I've got no problem purchasing a camera with a fixed lens. Most Digitals have zoom lenses, and I wonder about the picture quality. Has technology improved enough that zoom lenses provide exceptional picture quality? btw...My Dad purchased a Leica in Germany in the '50's. When he came to Canada, he sold it. When I heard that I got ****ed off. You don't say what your existing digital camera is so it is impossible to judge what you consider to be "high" picture quality at present. Zooms up to 3-4x these days are extremely well controlled and in a digital camera that corrects in software for any lateral chromatic aberration can be pushed to even longer 10-12x zoom ratios. The price is typically some pincushion distortion at the ends of the range. (this can be corrected in post processing software) There are some pretty good 10x zoom range lenses on cross over cameras now. Basically you need to decide if you want a camera small enough to always have with you (like a Canon Ixus), a full DSLR or in between. The main difference these days is time to focus and manual overrides. The manual for my DSLR is about an inch thick and some dark recesses of its intricate config menu system still remain unexplored. A fast lens, macro and image stabilisation is worth having as is the ability to do short snatches of HD video (which usually comes for free). Most of the makers and review sites have full resolution sample images online to let you see what they can do in expert hands. -- Regards, Martin Brown |
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Martin Brown wrote: On 29/04/2014 23:00, A Moose in Love wrote: I'd like to purchase a new digital camera. My Mum likes my old one, so I'm giving it to her. Ahh... The Good son! ;-) My main criteria for a camera is picture quality. I don't need a lot of gadgets. I was thinking of something Panasonic between $250 and $500. I like that they have Leica lenses. However, I've got no problem purchasing a camera with a fixed lens. Most Digitals have zoom lenses, and I wonder about the picture quality. Has technology improved enough that zoom lenses provide exceptional picture quality? btw...My Dad purchased a Leica in Germany in the '50's. When he came to Canada, he sold it. When I heard that I got ****ed off. Hey! He had to make economical provisions for you. Did he make the Right Choice? ;-p Fixed lenses are almost always better bang for the buck if image quality is your sole concern. If that's the case then I would consider an used Richo GR* or Sigma DP* if I were you. YMMV... I have an Ixus as ultra compact the small sensor gives it a low keeper rate. -- teleportation kills http://tinyurl.com/androidphotography |
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Martin Brown wrote: On 29/04/2014 23:00, A Moose in Love wrote: I'd like to purchase a new digital camera. My Mum likes my old one, so I'm giving it to her. Ahh... The Good son! ;-) My main criteria for a camera is picture quality. I don't need a lot of gadgets. I was thinking of something Panasonic between $250 and $500. I like that they have Leica lenses. However, I've got no problem purchasing a camera with a fixed lens. Most Digitals have zoom lenses, and I wonder about the picture quality. Has technology improved enough that zoom lenses provide exceptional picture quality? btw...My Dad purchased a Leica in Germany in the '50's. When he came to Canada, he sold it. When I heard that I got ****ed off. Hey! He had to make economical provisions for you. Did he make the Right Choice? ;-p Fixed lenses are almost always better bang for the buck if image quality is your sole concern. If that's the case then I would consider an used Richo GR* or Sigma DP* if I were you. YMMV... I have an Ixus 70 as ultra compact the small sensor gives it a low keeper rate. -- teleportation kills http://tinyurl.com/androidphotography |
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Martin Brown wrote: On 29/04/2014 23:00, A Moose in Love wrote: I'd like to purchase a new digital camera. My Mum likes my old one, so I'm giving it to her. Ahh... The Good son! ;-) My main criteria for a camera is picture quality. I don't need a lot of gadgets. I was thinking of something Panasonic between $250 and $500. I like that they have Leica lenses. However, I've got no problem purchasing a camera with a fixed lens. Most Digitals have zoom lenses, and I wonder about the picture quality. Has technology improved enough that zoom lenses provide exceptional picture quality? btw...My Dad purchased a Leica in Germany in the '50's. When he came to Canada, he sold it. When I heard that I got ****ed off. Hey! He had to make economical provisions for you. Did he make the Right Choice? ;-p Fixed lenses are almost always better bang for the buck if image quality is your sole concern. If that's the case then I would consider an used Richo GR* or Sigma DP* if I were you. YMMV... I have an Ixus 70 as ultra compact the small sensor gives it a low keeper rate. I only use it at the wide end and shoot raw with the CHDK firmware addon. -- teleportation kills http://tinyurl.com/androidphotography |
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wrote: Fixed lenses are almost always better bang for the buck if image quality is your sole concern. If that's the case then I would consider an used Richo GR* or Sigma DP* if I were you. YMMV... I have an Ixus 70 as ultra compact the small sensor gives it a low keeper rate. I only use it at the wide end and shoot raw with the CHDK firmware addon. don't even consider sigma cameras. they're junk. |
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nospam wrote: In article , android wrote: Fixed lenses are almost always better bang for the buck if image quality is your sole concern. If that's the case then I would consider an used Richo GR* or Sigma DP* if I were you. YMMV... I have an Ixus 70 as ultra compact the small sensor gives it a low keeper rate. I only use it at the wide end and shoot raw with the CHDK firmware addon. don't even consider sigma cameras. they're junk. Their sensors are half frame and the technology is interesting. We're talking the compacts here. Are you sure? They seem by look and measurement to be built on the chassis as some other brand compacts like Pana LX * Richo GR* models but i can be wrong. I haven't investigated that for a few years. -- teleportation kills http://tinyurl.com/androidphotography |
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In article , android
wrote: Fixed lenses are almost always better bang for the buck if image quality is your sole concern. If that's the case then I would consider an used Richo GR* or Sigma DP* if I were you. YMMV... I have an Ixus 70 as ultra compact the small sensor gives it a low keeper rate. I only use it at the wide end and shoot raw with the CHDK firmware addon. don't even consider sigma cameras. they're junk. Their sensors are half frame and the technology is interesting. interesting yes, but that's about it. the problem is that the technology doesn't actually work particularly well (nor will it ever due to physics) and that sigma lies about it. We're talking the compacts here. Are you sure? very sure, and their slr has the same sensor as the compacts, with the same problems (plus the ones brought on by a not particularly well designed slr body). They seem by look and measurement to be built on the chassis as some other brand compacts like Pana LX * Richo GR* models but i can be wrong. I haven't investigated that for a few years. the camera body is sigma's own design, but that isn't what matters. the sensor is downright awful, with all sorts of artifacts and weird colour casts and the cameras themselves are slow with pitiful battery life, typically 70 photos per charge. the raw format is proprietary which means you're stuck with sigma's (very) slow and crappy software. there are one or two other raw converters that reverse engineered the format but didn't do a complete job so the results aren't as good. |
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nospam wrote: In article , android wrote: Fixed lenses are almost always better bang for the buck if image quality is your sole concern. If that's the case then I would consider an used Richo GR* or Sigma DP* if I were you. YMMV... I have an Ixus 70 as ultra compact the small sensor gives it a low keeper rate. I only use it at the wide end and shoot raw with the CHDK firmware addon. don't even consider sigma cameras. they're junk. Their sensors are half frame and the technology is interesting. interesting yes, but that's about it. the problem is that the technology doesn't actually work particularly well (nor will it ever due to physics) and that sigma lies about it. We're talking the compacts here. Are you sure? very sure, and their slr has the same sensor as the compacts, with the same problems (plus the ones brought on by a not particularly well designed slr body). They seem by look and measurement to be built on the chassis as some other brand compacts like Pana LX * Richo GR* models but i can be wrong. I haven't investigated that for a few years. the camera body is sigma's own design, but that isn't what matters. Oki... the sensor is downright awful, with all sorts of artifacts and weird colour casts and the cameras themselves are slow with pitiful battery life, typically 70 photos per charge. I haven't done any extensive testing with available files... the raw format is proprietary which means you're stuck with sigma's (very) slow and crappy software. there are one or two other raw converters that reverse engineered the format but didn't do a complete job so the results aren't as good. You can ding some of the DPs files and use a multitude of converters. https://www.adobe.com/products/photo...#dngcompatible -- teleportation kills http://tinyurl.com/androidphotography |
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In article , android
wrote: the raw format is proprietary which means you're stuck with sigma's (very) slow and crappy software. there are one or two other raw converters that reverse engineered the format but didn't do a complete job so the results aren't as good. You can ding some of the DPs files and use a multitude of converters. https://www.adobe.com/products/photo...#dngcompatible those are the old dp series cameras with the 4.6mp sensor, and not even all of them since the sd15 isn't even included. none of the recent 15mp 'merrill' sensors are included. sigma started encrypting the data and doesn't offer support to anyone. |
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nospam wrote: In article , android wrote: the raw format is proprietary which means you're stuck with sigma's (very) slow and crappy software. there are one or two other raw converters that reverse engineered the format but didn't do a complete job so the results aren't as good. You can ding some of the DPs files and use a multitude of converters. https://www.adobe.com/products/photo...#dngcompatible those are the old dp series cameras with the 4.6mp sensor, and not even all of them since the sd15 isn't even included. none of the recent 15mp 'merrill' sensors are included. The Merrils ain't that interesting since they do not have true three color pixels. sigma started encrypting the data and doesn't offer support to anyone. Too bad... -- teleportation kills http://tinyurl.com/androidphotography |
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