Peter,
I didn't have time look at your examples. Two comments though. First,
the lens. The 90mm is a great lens at F8 and small but at less than F8
it's pretty bad (Check out PhotoDo). The G1 lens is known to be very
good. Glass matters.
Second, It's fairly well known that the D-30 does very little in camera
sharpening even when sharpening is turned up fully causing the
out-of-camera images to appear a bit soft. This is good but usually
causes a bit of extra effort if you don't like the fact that the images
don't look "digitially sharp".
Anyway, if you go over to any of the dedicated D-30 groups you'll find
this subject has been discussed a lot and that overall the images out of
the D-30 are far superior to the G1 (or any CCD based camera up to 4mp).
The noise levels are much lower and you'll find that there is actually
more detail in the D-30 images even though they don't "look" as sharp as
the G1.
One pass through unsharp mask and you can have them as "sharp" as your
G1 but with all the detail that the D-30 has to offer.
Cheers,
Ron
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of
> Peter Hancock
> Sent: Monday, August 06, 2001 10:38 AM
> To: 'eos'
> Subject: EOS D30/G1 Digital / film comparison
>
>
> Like many members of this list, I guess, I've envied those
> who can justify splashing out on a D30. I do own a Canon G1
> digital and recently got to play with a D30 which turned up
> second hand in my local Jessops. So I shoved my lens and
> microdrive onto it and did a few test pictures. The most
> controlled was a macro shot of a coin, which I was able to
> compare with the G1. I used my Sigma 90mm macro on the D30,
> perhaps not the world's sharpest lens, but not exactly blunt,
> either. In order to get as close with the G1, I attached the
> 1:1 adaptor close up lens from the Sigma, via a home-made
> filter adaptor.
>
> The result was that the G1 shots were sharper! This despite
> a less than ideal close up lens attached. I've made up a web
> page with the test images:
>
http://www.stir.ac.uk/psychology/Staff/pjbh1/digitalcomp.htm
This also has a comparison between the G1 and film, in the guise of Fuji
Sensia (I think, might have been Provia!), again using the Sigma macro.
Again the G1 is much sharper, though I prefer the tonal quality ofthe
film image.
I'm not quite so keen on the D30 now... However, the G1 really bites.
Peter
Peter Hancock
Department of Psychology,
University of Stirling
FK9 4LA
Phone 01786 467675 Fax 01786 467641
e-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.stir.ac.uk/psychology/staff/pjbh1
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