I’m Taking the Point and Shoot!
So I finally got my photos off of the SD card in the Nikon camera and I’ve decided this whole sharing a camera thing just doesn’t work. Then I remember that before the DSLR there was the Canon point-and-shoot that seemed to work so well for years. Why not just use that camera? Why not just make it my own… my precious. So I pulled it out and took a few shots of my gaming rig. While I never before could articulate why the photos from a DSLR were better, I always knew they were, but now I know why. It’s the optics. Looking at these shots I can now clearly see how the lens in the Canon adds color artifacts due to the shape of the camera body and the quality of the processing of the glass. It’s just obvious. Weird.
I’ll probably write up more later, but now I need to get back to Keeping Track of it All.
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I slipped on a wet floor and slid about 15 feet. I ended up at the hospital, bruised and battered, but it was only when I realized that I broke my Canon txi that I cried. I have been unable to replace it and so have been forced to fall back on my digital point and shoot. When I first bought this camera, with its wonderous 5 MP of resolution, I was thrilled and in awe of the images that immediately popped up on my monitor when I simply plugged it in.
Now….I frown at the lack of depth and clarity and dream of the day I can afford to replace my DSLR.
Comment by Lynda on March 11th, 2008 at 7:36 pm
The DSLR’s image quality is also due to the size of the sensor. The sensor in a point-and-shoot is about the size of your pinkie fingernail, sometimes smaller. The DSLR’s sensor is about 66% the size of a frame of 35mm film.
You’ve got 6 million humongous pixels gathering light rather than 8 million tiny little ones. Which one will perform better?
Comment by Elliott - 21st Century Dad on March 12th, 2008 at 10:30 pm