[xBhp Universal Thread]: Photography and Critique

[rennycornelius]

Originally Posted by sheelpriye

What about digital zoom?

Both are 4X in digital zoom department, but digital zoom is not of much use i think, as it only keeps on cropping on the original pic size, reducing the quality of the pic too, which ultimately results in the "shattred" pic.
(I'am noob at the photography and camera thing, and the above statement is best of my knowledge, it might be wrong)

Still the 10X optical zoom of Canon is more than enough, plus it has max of 15 sec shutter lag,it has got full manual controls, and a full manual focus too.. (1- 1/2500 sec (factory default)
15 - 1/2500 sec (total range - varies by shooting mode), no view finder though), but the nikon has a HD recording with 15X zoom available,with stereo sound, the canon has no HD recording ((L)640 x 480, 30fps/30fps(LP), and that optical zoom cannot be used in that too, and no stereo sound here.

So i think it's pretty much loaded for 13000 bucks,and after all the googling, i found it to be the only one having this much features in sub 13 grand department.

[Aryan]

@Renny: You are right; digital zoom is simply put, useless. Never look at the digital zoom rating when buying a digital camera.

I am not sure how these new breed of super-zooms work, but ideally speaking anything over say 6-8x zoom kills the details in the photographs. A 15-20x zoom is massive! Although, it will cover everything one would ever need to shoot (right from wide-angle to telephoto) but I am not too sure about the quality of the photographs at 20x!

[sheelpriye]

The Canon seems brilliant for 10x(at that price point)

@Aryan--Are you shooting stills for DreamCarz other than your job?

[rennycornelius]

Originally Posted by Aryan

@Renny: You are right; digital zoom is simply put, useless. Never look at the digital zoom rating when buying a digital camera.

I am not sure how these new breed of super-zooms work, but ideally speaking anything over say 6-8x zoom kills the details in the photographs. A 15-20x zoom is massive! Although, it will cover everything one would ever need to shoot (right from wide-angle to telephoto) but I am not too sure about the quality of the photographs at 20x!

I was waiting for you Sir, to comment on this....

Originally Posted by sheelpriye

The Canon seems brilliant for 10x(at that price point)

I'll be getting ot today, will be leaving in an hour to get it....

[happybiking]

@Renny : A decision well made. Canon simply rocks!!! the picture quality & anti-blur is amazing I can bet with teh li'l experience that I have with a 490IS and now a SX 20 IS(almost a SLR). 5X extra optical zoom would rarely come into play unless you are too much into bird photography

Happy Clicking!!!

[rennycornelius]

Originally Posted by happybiking

@Renny : A decision well made. Canon simply rocks!!! the picture quality & anti-blur is amazing I can bet with teh li'l experience that I have with a 490IS and now a SX 20 IS(almost a SLR). 5X extra optical zoom would rarely come into play unless you are too much into bird photography

Happy Clicking!!!

I also loved that SX20 but i didnt wanted to spend more than 15000...

BTW i Bought the camera (SX120 IS) for 11700 bucks, freebies are 2GB card and rechargable battries.

[sheelpriye]

Originally Posted by rennycornelius

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BTW i Bought the camera (SX120 IS) for 11700 bucks, freebies are 2GB card and rechargable battries.

Could you please scan and mail the bill to me? sheelpriye@hotmail.com

[rennycornelius]

Originally Posted by sheelpriye

Could you please scan and mail the bill to me? sheelpriye@hotmail.com

You have a mail.

[kiran_borra]

Some from my end

[rennycornelius]

How an HDR image is created??
Are there any softwares to create it, or it's done by fusing 2-3 pics in diffrent exposure levels?