John, > The big difference between DSLRs and P&S compacts is the size of the > sensor (and, in particular, the amount of silicon for each pixel). > The sensor in a P&S is tiny compared to that is a DSLR - generally > about 10% of the area. Image quality, and particularly the amount > of noise, is strongly related to the size of each individual pixel.
I was aware of these fact but still haven't realized that the difference is so big - probably bigger than difference between the pixel sizes. :-) I don't care about noise too much (we have Neatimage after all) but I HATE look of overprocessed images (typically anything over 4MPix in compacts area - I deliberately reduce the size of pictures from my 5Mpix SONY DSC-T1 to hide these artefacts somewhat). I can't imagine how the output from 10MPix compacts looks like. :-( But the biggest differentiating factor are still lenses IMHO. All pictures I've shot so far were taken with SMC F50/1.7 and this lens mounted on istDs is a real cracker. Bit long for general use yet I haven't found this to be the limiting factor (which was my creativity, as always :-)). Technically wise I can't detect anything wrong - no signs of color bleeding, no visible distortions, no flare, it resolves more details than I can see with my eyes (being short tele on DSLR to its advantage)... Tomorrow I plan to give A50/1.4 a try to see if it could be improved in any way. Cheers, Peter -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
