On Mon, 13 Oct 2003, Dario Bonazza 2 wrote: > Ryan wrote: > > I just got to say I LOVE MY *ist D !!! > > The image quality is sharper than I expected, > > Please forgive me, but maybe you were expecting too little, since all *ist D > images I've seen so far look more or less blurred (compared to other same > specs DSLR's), with no details in focus, like there's always camera shake. > Am I the only one having such an impression?
The internal sharpening that the *ist D does is less than any consumer digicam that I've ever seen and less than many digital SLRs. Out of the camera images look much like they are from a scanned slide. I think that this is a good thing -- you can always add sharpness, but you can't always remove it or the noise that it adds at higher ISOs. The camera does have an option to increase sharpness which might make images closer to other D-SLRs. The Canon 300D has the most sharpness of any D-SLR that I've seen. There are some unsharpened full resolution *ist D images at http://phred.org/~alex/pictures/hiking/snow-lake-10-5-03/ from a hiking trip that I went on last week. Please don't go crazy downloading them though, that'll be painful to my DSL line. These were shot using the A 24/2.8 or the A 50/1.4 (most were from the 24/2.8). The resized images do have some USM applied. alex
