Date: Fri, 5 Apr 2002 16:41:35 -0800 (PST)
From: David Chien <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: RE: Digital cameras (was [LIB] New Website
> > Lots of depth of field with slow lenses, thus no worry or thinking at all
> >about is that in focus or what f/stop do I use. Can't do it = don't think
> >about it = less to think about in the field.
>
> OK lemme get this right in my head because now I'm starting to get confused
> ... heh. A slow lens means you need to use either a slower shutter speed or
> a larger aperture. But doesn't a larger aperture mean LESS focusing depth?
A lens with a big minimum aperture rating (eg. f/5.6) is a slow lens vs. a
lens with a small minimum aperture rating (eg. f/1.8), a fast lens.
Larger apertures = smaller aperture values = f/1.8, smaller apertures =
larger aperture values = f/5.6, f/11, f/32, etc.
Larger aperturs (eg. f/1.8) allows you to take a picture of a scene using
faster shutter speeds vs. smaller apertures (eg. f/11), which let in less light
due to the smaller opening.
Yes, it is confusing if you don't get all these differences right.
> important as image quality. What sorta camera would YOU recommend in the
> same price range as these 2 cameras (about the $300-$400USD range)?
Basic Point & Shoot Camera with fixed lens, cheap <$200 cost?
FujiFilm A201 - great job, great pics, generally good performance and easy to
use.
With zoom?
Just about anything: eg. Canon A20 (replaced soon by A40), Nikon 775,
FujiFilm 2800z, Olympus Zoom anything, maybe even a Sony if they're cheap
enough models. All of these will get you very good image quality, a slew of
features, and work well enough today that anyone will generally be happy with
any of them.
Myself?
FujiFilm 30i/40i/50i - like listening to MP3 on my digital camera.
FujiFilm 2800z - big 6x optical zoom.
> What
> exactly do you (and the review sites) mean by the lens being 'soft'? Would
> you really notice it if you never enlarged the photos to more than say A4
> sized?
Soft = not sharp = bad lens design = blurry pictures when printed.
> I notice plenty of 'blurriness' in some of the shots I take with the
> Olympus (most of them being dim light shots) but I put that down to either
At night, that has nothing to do with lens quality and all to do with slow
shutter speeds causing hand-held shake blurring.
Yes, you'll notice unsharp lenses vs. sharper when printed at A4/Letter sized
prints. At smaller sizes? Up to you. Download the test images provided by
Minolta and dpreview.com and imaging-resource.com, then compare vs. a much
sharper lensed digital camera.
I noticed right away on letter sized prints, and find the X just too soft to
be a good replacement for my 40i.
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