Sailplane photography, outside, daylight, for web and magazine publishing, 1200-1500 dpi. max It suits fine. All the tech talk is great, but for "my purposes" as I stated it works fine and for someone who wants a high function, feature loaded camera with superior optics, for less than half the price of an SLR type, it is a great alternative.
JD Endless Mountain Models http://www.scalesoaring.com email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -----Original Message----- > From: Erich Merkel [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, February 25, 2005 1:18 AM > To: John Derstine; 'James V Bacus'; soaring@airage.com > Subject: Re: [RCSE] Digital photography > > Something that escapes most people is that the sensors in 8 MP non-SLR > digitals are physically smaller than the sensors in 8 MP SLR's, so > although > the resolution of the two sensors will be equivalent, because of the > smaller > pixels the images produced by the smaller sized sensors will exhibit more > "noise"... especially at higher ISO settings. So while images taken at > ISO > 800 or even 1600 on my Canon 20D are acceptable, those taken on the Nikon > 8700 (or any other small sensor digicam) will likely exhibit enough noise > to > render them unusable. If you have no need to take available light images > in > low light conditions then it probably doesn't matter... > Erich Merkel > Colville, WA > Phone: 509-684-0440 > Cell: 509-680-1141 RCSE-List facilities provided by Model Airplane News. Send "subscribe" and "unsubscribe" requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please note that subscribe and unsubscribe messages must be sent in text only format with MIME turned off. Email sent from web based email such as Hotmail and AOL are generally NOT in text format
