Timeline for What feature in a digital camera do I want to give better quality pictures?
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| Nov 30, 2010 at 9:28 | vote | accept | Jeff Widmer | ||
| Nov 25, 2010 at 11:10 | comment | added | t3mujin | Advanced compacts like the Panasonic LX5, Canon G12 or Nikon P7000 have a larger sensor size in a compact body. Another way to go could be micro 4/3 cameras (Olympus PEN, Panasonic GF2) | |
| Nov 24, 2010 at 15:34 | history | edited | sastanin | CC BY-SA 2.5 |
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| Nov 24, 2010 at 15:27 | comment | added | sastanin | Both are compact cameras, with approximately the same sensor size. But the newer camera has more megapixels, so it has a smaller pixel size. So there is less light per pixel, so it has to amplify the amplify the signal more, and thus it has to either do more aggressive noise reduction (=> details are lost) or produce a more grainy image. Did you try to compare them at the same resolution (2560 x 1920) or do you compare 5MP shot to 10MP shot looking at 1:1 scale at both? | |
| Nov 24, 2010 at 15:18 | history | edited | sastanin | CC BY-SA 2.5 |
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| Nov 24, 2010 at 15:15 | comment | added | Jeff Widmer | Regarding my previous comment about sensor size: Could the problem be that the DMC-ZS3 sensor is pretty much the same size as the Canon S2 yet it is trying to take a picture that is twice as big? | |
| Nov 24, 2010 at 15:13 | comment | added | Jeff Widmer | According to the specifications from dpreview the DMC-ZS3 sensor is 0.28 cm² and the Canon S2 is 0.24 cm². So sensor size cannot explain the problem... but now I know that sensor size is an important feature! | |
| Nov 24, 2010 at 15:10 | comment | added | Jeff Widmer | I am not concerned about shooting photos at a high ISO. I pretty much leave it on auto for the DMC-ZS3 (which usually is ISO-200). But even manually setting the ISO to 100 on the DMC-ZS3 did not help. | |
| Nov 24, 2010 at 15:06 | history | answered | sastanin | CC BY-SA 2.5 |