RE: a few DSC-F717 pictures

[Jens Bladt]

Hello Alex
I'm glad I'n not the only one with a F717.
Your shots are very nice. I like your butterfly the best. It's brilliant.
Perfect focus/DOF. I believe digital is better for close-ups (greater DOF
due to smaller format) than landscapes, where resolution is often crusial.
Actually I'm a little afraid to get disappointed with the *ist D (should I
ever get one) - it's just one more MP at the cost of 300% of that of the
SONY. www.dpreview says it's the best resolution they have seen yet on a 5MP
camera. They even compare the image quality with that of the Olympus E-1! AS
I have said before, I can'ot believe Pentax hasn't made a digital camera
like this (all-in-one). It would porbably be a great success.

Anyway, I'm planning to sell some analog lenses and bodies, I never use
(M85, A135, A50, M50, A35-80, P30, P50, K1000, Z1) to help finance a *ist D.
I will, of course let you all know before I put it up for sale at ebay. I'll
(Probably) keep my best lenses and my recently purchased MZ-S.

Jens Bladt
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http://hjem.get2net.dk/bladt


-Oprindelig meddelelse-
Fra: alex wetmore [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sendt: 25. maj 2004 17:37
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Emne: PAW: a few DSC-F717 pictures


After the conversation on the DSC-F717 I thought I would do a PAW
with a few of my favorite photographs from that camera:

http://phred.org/~alex/pictures/nz02/christchurch/botanical-gardens/reduced-
800/butterfly-in-field.JPG
or http://tinyurl.com/3d6zr

http://phred.org/~alex/pictures/nz02/kaikoura/reduced/DSC00308.JPG

http://phred.org/~alex/pictures/nz02/westcoast-hoki-to-fox/reduced/DSC00486.
JPG
or http://tinyurl.com/2kmym

http://phred.org/~alex/pictures/hiking/carbon-river-7-14-02/reduced/DSC01571
.JPG
or http://tinyurl.com/2v52r

alex

RE: a few DSC-F717 pictures

[alex wetmore]

On Tue, 25 May 2004, Jens Bladt wrote:
> I'm glad I'n not the only one with a F717.
> Your shots are very nice. I like your butterfly the best. It's brilliant.
> Perfect focus/DOF. I believe digital is better for close-ups (greater DOF
> due to smaller format) than landscapes, where resolution is often crusial.

I agree.  Digital cameras are great for macro and closeup work.

> Actually I'm a little afraid to get disappointed with the *ist D (should I
> ever get one) - it's just one more MP at the cost of 300% of that of the
> SONY. www.dpreview says it's the best resolution they have seen yet on a 5MP
> camera. They even compare the image quality with that of the Olympus E-1! AS
> I have said before, I can'ot believe Pentax hasn't made a digital camera
> like this (all-in-one). It would porbably be a great success.

What makes the *ist D a wonderful upgrade is the higher ISO of the
camera.  I can shoot in much lower light with much less noise than I
ever could with the F717.

The F717 has about three stops more noise than the *ist D (ie, ISO 100
on the F717 is about as noisy as ISO 800 on the *ist D).  This is
really cool for handheld available light photography.

The low noise as ISO 200 and 400 is also amazing.  That butterfly shot
took a lot of post processing to make a decent 13x19 print of, mostly
due to distracting noise.  I think that it would have been a lot
easier if it had been shot at ISO 200 on the *ist D.  That shot was
made at ISO 100 on the F717 and there is still a lot of noise.

alex