Playing with a new camera...

Thank you Lunde for the links, :D. However, when I clicked on the "buy ticket" link this message appeared --> There was a problem processing your request...Registration is no longer allowed for this event. Does this mean they no longer sell tickets? :grumpy: Bummer the SHOT show is not open to the public either :grumpy:

SUPER quality pictures, you have got talents in photography :thumbup:


lunde said:
hero5211314, you wrote:See: http://www.blademag.com/bladeshow_attendees

But, I was talking about the 2010 SHOT Show. See: http://www.shotshow.org/
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All reviews I've read indicate the S90 is one hell of a quality camera, good purchase! Nice for every day shooting!
 
Ken,

That picture looks oversharpened, and maybe a bit noisy. Does the camera allow you to set the sharpening level, or better yet, shoot RAW?
 
Nice picture Ken. I've looking for a point and shoot but can't make up my mind. I'll check the reviews of this one.
 
Evolute, you wrote:
That picture looks oversharpened, and maybe a bit noisy.
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I applied corrective sharpening due to the scaling that I needed to do, from 10 megapixels down to 1000 pixels wide.

Related to sharpening, and apparent noisiness, what you're observing is the "Bama Clay" blade finish, and to some extent, the Tan Canvas Micarta handles. Look closely at the Busse Combat logo on the blade, to see that it does not share those characteristics.
Does the camera allow you to set the sharpening level, or better yet, shoot RAW?
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This photo was shot in RAW, then processed in Lightroom. :thumbup:
 
PorcupineMtns66, you wrote:
I've looking for a point and shoot but can't make up my mind. I'll check the reviews of this one.
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Thus far, it seems that the Canon PowerShot S90 is near-perfect for my uses, for times when I don't want to lug around my Nikon D300.

I discovered the S90 while looking for a digital camera for my parents. I ended up buying for them a Panasonic Lumix DMC-ZS3, and almost bought one for myself. If the Canon S90 didn't exist, I probably would have done so. The manual controls, along with the ability to shoot in RAW, are reasons I chose the Canon S90. One feature I wanted for my parents was a high-resolution three-inch LCD.
 
Whenever you significantly reduce the size of an image, corrective sharpening is required, otherwise you lose any sharpness that was present in the original image.

The image began as 3648x2736, and I scaled to 1000x750.
 
Thank goodness you are finally starting to work on your photography skilz. :thumbup:
 
lunde said:
Whenever you significantly reduce the size of an image, corrective sharpening is required, otherwise you lose any sharpness that was present in the original image.

The image began as 3648x2736, and I scaled to 1000x750.
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Ken,

Is it best to resize with a photo editing program and then upload to photobucket or the like? Or will uploading the full size image and letting photobucket resize be as good?

Thanks,

Kevin
 
In my experience, if you use a photo hosting service, they often resize or downsample the images, in order to minimize filesize, which subsequently minimizes their bandwidth. If you notice a quality difference between your original photos, as you uploaded, and the uploaded photos, this is most likely the reason.

I host my photos on my own website, so I can guarantee that no changes are made to my photos.

Oh, I just took a quick snapshot of my 2009 pronghorn antelope that is now hanging on my office wall:

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This was shot in JPEG using all-automatic settings.
 
MustardMan said:
Why is it that Ken's "just playing" pictures are 1000x better than the best picture I've ever taken?


Gorgeous stuff...




And awesome subject matter ;) :thumbup::thumbup::thumbup::thumbup::thumbup:
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It's all in the lighting. Buy or make a light box/tent (something like this or this, for example), and your knife pics will be 500x times better.
 
have you handled a panasonic lx3? I purchased mine a while back, and I've only read one review comparing the two, and it was pretty minimal.

I was going to comment that there seemed to be a lot of blue channel noise on the first shot, but then I noticed it was shot at 800 iso. for a 1/1.7 sensor thats pretty good.

and same for the antelope shot, that's a pretty hard shot to avoid blue/purple fringing on. I'm curious to know how much barrel distortion the s90 corrects for - on the lx3 it's MASSIVE. If you look at the true raw image sans in camera lens distortion correction, it's like your using an 16mm fisheye on a full frame sensor.
 
Lunde,

Do you find the f2.0 aperture to have much ability, with the small sensor, to allow for creative depth of field at reasonable, non-macro, distances? As much as I like my sx-1is, f2.8 is too small to allow for much creativity in dof. Aperture priority is a wasted 'feature' on most digicams. I cannot tell without using it if one extra stop will make much difference (though since the s90 sensor is also larger than the norm it certainly has a better chance).

Is that model the ship from 'The Black Hole'?
 
The 3" LCD is good for older eyes. Looks like it has good features for a P&S.
 
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