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[jack55]

Originally Posted by DioneaUK

mr_meg you have illustrated exactly what I was thinking when I was reading through this thread. Your pictures are vastly better than Jack's in every respect (sorry Jack). There is just no comparison.

Well, if I posted HUGE resolutions (like you did) instead of resizing them, my photo's would be better too.

HMMM!!!must be looking at the wrong thread because I have seen nothing posted by another camera that really blows away what p90 is putting out.

[DioneaUK]

Originally Posted by jack55

Well, if I posted HUGE resolutions (like you did) instead of resizing them, my photo's would be better too.

I'm making a point about sharpness and noise so I have to post at full res - any downsampling will make it unrealistic.

I meant no offense and I actually think that mr_megs pictures are a lot better than mine as well. But why are they better? He has an even older camera than mine. Maybe it is true that packing all those extra pixels into a tiny CCD is not improving image quality as I have heard some people say. My mother uses a Nikon Coolpix 4500, which has half the resolution that my 8800 had and she gets better pictures than anybody I know.

[jack55]

Originally Posted by DioneaUK

I'm making a point about sharpness and noise so I have to post at full res - any downsampling will make it unrealistic.

That is the point... downsizing would make it more plain. Your not suppose to put HUGE files on here. See the rules.

[DioneaUK]

Originally Posted by jack55

That is the point... downsizing would make it more plain. Your not suppose to put HUGE files on here. See the rules.

They're on my own server, not on the forum. Doesn't seem to be any rules against that AFAICS.

Can't see how downsampling would make the noise more plain as it will be reduced.

[jack55]

Originally Posted by DioneaUK

They're on my own server, not on the forum. Doesn't seem to be any rules against that AFAICS.

Can't see how downsampling would make the noise more plain as it will be reduced.

I can see your new here

What they ask:
Keep the photo to about 750 pixels for the longest side so it can easily viewed by most users, if you want to put a link to a larger version that is fine.

When you have to scroll from right to left, that sucks!

[JimC]

Originally Posted by DioneaUK

Here are some 8800 images for comparison:

I've removed the img tags so that those images are links instead of embedded images within this forum thread.. Please try to keep image dimensions to less than 1024 pixels wide (800 or less is even better) when including them in forum posts here. Keep in mind that a number of our members have lower resolution displays (especially laptop users) and would need to scroll left and right to see the entire thread when larger images are embedded.

If you need something to resize them with, try the free Irfanview using it's Image>Resize/Resample menu choice.

Thanks.

JimC

As we look at these 2 photos I see one that has been cropped(top) as we can tell by the roughness of the edge of the moon and the other that was not cropped(bottom) but only resized as to not have to large of a picture. The 2nd photo was shot at a full 24x zoom plus the 4x digital zoom. Now where i see a difference is that it (bottom)is a bit overexposed on the bright surface which really i was more testing the zoom than anything and hey i am a amatuer by any stretch of the imagination so I overexposed it a bit. So I discount that and look at the termination lines(where dark meets light) of both photos and really the detail is there. I see craters on both and i see shadows from the mountains. Next time I will not use the digital zoom because that does make noise in its own right and i will do a 24x zoom and then crop the photo to see how that will look. Yours definitely has better color no doubt but that is more the user than the equipment.

[jack55]

Well... here is my moon shot done with the P90 shot last month.

Yea jack i still love that picture!! I want to get one like that!!!Awesome!!!