Camera Recommendations compact or dSLR?

That's a real shame Rick, I was really looking forward to that.

the 300 Dpi is a tradition in the publication industry based on the line screens that where used to convert full tone photos to half tone for printing The screens came in 3 quality's the lowest used for news print the highest for art paper as glossy mags and was 150 lines Of dots think 150 horizontal and 150 vertical and you have 300dpi. so for example in a 150ppi the smallest detail will be 150th of an inch much better then most folks eye sight. My self I'm happy to print at 200ppi or near even from 9 mp if I need to crop to get just one bird from a large seen

I printed an image at a number of resolutions and found 180dpi was visibly better than 150dpi, but 200, 240 and 300dpi offered no additional gain to the unaided eye. However 180 dpi did divide neatly into the printer's resolution (1440dpi) while 150 did not. So perhaps

Mark Thornton

Quite a dramatic photo, even if they are 1960s diseasels.

The printer prints at up to 1400 dpi. It varies the density depending on the strength of hue needed. You have no control the printers software takes full control

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Good shot, Martin. I saw that pair coming through here while I was out with the dog yesterday morning, running quite late with the Holyhead RTZ train, and I planned to go out in the afternoon with the video camera for the return run. I was most disappointed to hear that they'd been put on the Mid-Cheshire group's trip to S.Wales.

I didn't bother going out for the 67 which did the RTZ run...

DERWENT Re: Camera Recommendations compact or dSLR? Sun, 13 May 2007 14:05:39 +0100, "Martin Bray"

I'd need to see the original to tell if you'd made an improvement! Did it start out single headed?

PRAR

These are all compact cameras, not dSLR. I can hope that some day we have such tools to use....

Every once in a while, I get something that comes out really spectacular, and I want to put it into a 16x20 inch picture frame and hang it on the wall. With 100 ASA film this is not much of a problem, even with a little cropping. With 400 ASA film, the grain is slightly visible but not too bad. With a 2 megapixel image from a digital camera, the results were so awful that the next time I went out to take photos I grabbed my film camera and not the digital.

Isn't Photoshop wonderful! But why stop at two?

Cause people would think I manipulated it.

OK, compare that with

and of course 'true' digital SLRs have focal plane shutters so there is no view on screen of what you are photographing. This means that you cannot take a short 'movie' with a DSLR but you can with a compact digital camera. On the other hand you have a greater control of the 'shutter' on a DSLR than on a compact (which doesn't have a shutter as such) which opens up more creative effects eg first or second curtain flash and the 'freezing' of very fast movement with shutter speeds up to 1/4000th second on a 350D.

Alan

Alan

Canon are doing cash back offers at the moment so it would be sensible to check on their website. I've applied for 100pound back from them as I bought a Canon EFS17-85 IS lens recently and using the Jessops price matching voucher in Digital Camera magazine they only charged me 339pounds instead of the normal Jessops price of 510pounds, so once I get the cash back cheque from Canon it will only have cost me 239pounds.

Alan

There's been quite an informative series entitled 'Digital Photography for Model Engineers' in the last 3 editions of Model Engineer (vol.198 nos.4297 to 4299). Some main libraries keep back copies or they can be ordered from snipped-for-privacy@magicalia.com or 01689 899200

Alan

Nice picture for 2Mp and looks good on the web. You won't see much difference between our pictures on the web as the resolution is 72/96 dpi. However in theory yours will be sharper as its stationary and mines moving at approx 80mph, applying the "circles of confusion". (A 0.010" object viewed at a distance of 10" will appear to have no thickness and thus sharp, however if the 0.010" thickness has a part component velocity of 80mph for a shutter speed of 1/500s it will then have thickness and thus be slightly blurred). Try printing up the originals (1600*1200) compared with (3800*2500) on A4 and you'll see the difference.