At 09:35 PM 4/12/2004 -0500, Mark Dalal wrote:
How is the *istD holding up in terms of detail when compared to your scans? Are you finding the same level of detail in the feathers and other features?
I was going to look for an image in response to your question, but got this one yesterday:
http://markcassino.com/paw/robin/
The top photo is the full frame shot, uncropped, the bottom photo is an actual pixel detail of the robin's breast. I set the sharpening to 50 in Photoshop CS, otherwise the detailed image is not sharpened. The full frame image was sharpened after re-sizing it down to web size...
I gotta say, I'm scratching my head on this. I've seen this sort of result from other digital SLR's, but to be honest, I'm not sure if that feather detail is real or the result of the way the digital sensor creates the image. I shot this with a Tokina 400mm f5.6 lens, hand held at f8. The camera was set to ISO 400 and shutter speed was 1/750th with fill flash at -1 stop. It's probably the first time in over a year that I've used the Tokina, and while the lens has tested out to be good, maybe even very good, it's not great. I've shot a lot of bird iamges on really fine grained high resolution film using much better lenses and technique, but have never seen detail like that. So I'm not sure where all that apparent detail comes from, but I'm not complaining.
So to answer your question... it certainly appears to produce better detail in feathers than does film.
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