On Tue, March 30, 2010 08:52, PhotoRoy6@xxxxxxx wrote: > I noticed that the newer crop of pocket-point and shoot camera are up to > 10+ mega pixels. I haven't seen pocketable cameras with those zoom ranges. > The also have fixed lens with 10x and 12x zooms. Accepting the limitation > of not being able to change lens can a 10+mega pixel pocket camera produce > as good an image as a Canon DSLR at 10.1 mega pixel? I just had a thought > maybe the pocket cameras are squeezing mega pixels on to a half size > APS-C or > smaller sensor. Perhaps sensor size is also a factor here. They're much smaller than APS-C. This does have an effect on the images, especially at "high" ISO -- and a lot of these have a base ISO of 64 or 80, not 200 like the D700 or whatever. 400 is quite noise on my Panasonic DMC-LX3. -- David Dyer-Bennet, dd-b@xxxxxxxx; http://dd-b.net/ Snapshots: http://dd-b.net/dd-b/SnapshotAlbum/data/ Photos: http://dd-b.net/photography/gallery/ Dragaera: http://dragaera.info
