On 23 Jan 2004 at 8:06, Shel Belinkoff wrote: > It looks pretty good to me .... how does this quality > compare > with that from the istd?
Hi Shel, It's pretty difficult to make anything more than a speculative assessment given that a side-by-side comparison can't be made especially considering that one camera has a fixed lens. Also I can only really compare it to best quality JPEG out of the *ist D as I have only shot a handful of lower Q JPEG images during my first day with the camera. The Sony in camera post process definitely applies a great deal more sharpening than the *ist D at the minimum sharpening setting. There is also more colour noise visible in the white areas of the note than I would expect from *ist D image (even at medium JPEG Q). The high contrast edges show some obvious aliasing (likely a product of the heavy sharpening). There is some chromatic distortion visible on the edges too but it's not bad. I guess it would print quite well as is but I'd expect the output of the *ist D would be more refined. Rob Studdert HURSTVILLE AUSTRALIA Tel +61-2-9554-4110 UTC(GMT) +10 Hours [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://members.ozemail.com.au/~distudio/publications/ Pentax user since 1986, PDMLer since 1998
