Recent content by longtalker

Hi everyone I took some pictures of my college for a local competition, and before sending them off, I wanted to make sure they're digitally "optimised" - I've already made basic corrections to them, in terms of cropping, straightening and levels, however I think some of them could really...

OK so I compared (using DPreview's "Compare Studio Samples" tool) 100%-crop samples from the new Panasonic FZ150 with those from the Sony HX100V, and the former are clearly more crisp (almost as crisp as the unlikely hero which my old Canon A610 has become!), therefore I think I will wait a bit...

Nick - Many thanks for the corrected version. Yes I would be ok with just a tilting LCD rather than a fully articulated one, if the IQ at low ISOs were visilbly better! The IQ improvement that the Sony brings over the SX30 is minimal though, so the two factors even out. Even the barrel...

I have one more question about megazooms vs DSLRs. One thing I notice in all megazoom samples, in addition to the noise/lack of detail/watercolour aspect, is quite a high geometric distorsion of all images (mainly barrel distortion), as can be seen, for instance, in this sample. Is this problem...

Hi Adam, Richard and Nick, and many thanks for your very helpful replies. This is indeed a lot of food for thought, the trade-off between megazoom and IQ is quite clear to me now, and it looks like I will have to carefully consider which one to prioritise, because, as you say, one cannot find a...

Thank you for your replies! I completely agree about it not being realistic to expect a camera that has all the "pros" of the various categories of cameras without any of the "cons" that come with them. However, I really just wanted to have the IQ of a much older&cheaper camera (the A610), and...

Hello everyone, I want to buy a camera that has the following features, which my 6 year old Canon A610 does not have: - very large optical zoom (at least 20x) - high res video (at least 720p, ideally 1080p) - exposure bracketing - articulated LCD (the A610 does have that one) After a long...