I just report what I saw with my eyes, which of course is not a scientific way to judge the image quality.
I saw horrible noise and artifects at the children's faces, at 100% view from my Sony LCD monitor which is set at 1024x768 pixels. I watch it pixel by pixel.
I have done a crop on the original large photo and put it on my web server:
http://www.irenhenry.com/imgp0125-crop.jpg
If it is the problem of my monitor, I probably have to buy another one before my *ist-D arrive.
Cheers!
Henry 16/3/2003
From: Keith Whaley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Disappointing test samples of Optio S Date: Sat, 15 Mar 2003 07:50:54 -0800
Henry,
I have a 17" monitor, and I viewed the children's .jpg in "Expanded View," which turns out to be 30" wide (roughly 2 1/2 screen widths for my monitor) and looked carefully at the children's faces. From 30" viewing distance, I found it very hard to discern any degradation. With prior notice, like you gave us, I might be persuaded that there might be some, but would casual viewing notice it? Not at all... If I got up to within 11" of the monitor screen, I noticed some areas where the skin tone MIGHT be degraded, but it could also be smudges on the cheek or forehead. Nothing like what I expected from your description.
I particularly liked the detail in the shadows of the shrine structure.
Overall, not bad at all in my humble opinion.
If one expects to produce National Geographic quality images, you'll have to buy a 12 or 16 Mpixel camera, not a 3 Mpixel one! For what it _is_, I think it did a quite commendable job.
keith whaley _ _ _ _
Henry Henry wrote:
>
> Dear all,
>
> The Taiwanese website Photosharp has posted two test samples of Optio S:
>
> http://www.digital.idv.tw/dc-test/Pentax/OptioS/intro/index-optioS-intro.htm
>
> http://www.digital.idv.tw/spec/dgpentax/OptioS/imgp0087.jpg
> http://www.digital.idv.tw/spec/dgpentax/OptioS/imgp0125.jpg
>
> The colour rendition is on the saturated side and image noise is on the high
> side (on the shadow of the Chinese roof at photo 1 and on the faces/clothes
> of the children in photo 2). A bit disappointing...
>
> My desire for *ist-D has cooled down a bit...
>
> Regards,
>
> Henry
> 15/3/2003
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