The Official Head-Case Photography Thread.

[The Monkey]

Stunning, Jeff. Really nice stuff.

Guys, are there some "basic" shots I can take with the S95 and post to see if we can agree that it's all good. Are there some standard/reference(y) things/conditions I can shoot that will help determine if there are any issues? I'm worried about what I perceive as some softness in the images, but I also have been in some low light situations.

[grawk]

with a small sensor like that, it's gonna be soft in low light. Take a picture of something outside in the sun.

[The Monkey]

Yeah, I guess I forget the fact that it's amazing it can pull off low light in the first place. The last p&s I had from years ago was useless unless outside.

[VPI]

Just takes some shots where the subject is not backlit, by what appears to be the surface of the sun outside your window, and see if those come out sharp. Any indoor shot with average household lighting should be sufficient to give you a sharp shot with the S95.

If you are really interested there are various focus test prints that you can download and hang up all over your house to do your mad scientist measurements.

[shellylh]

Great pictures as usual Jeff!

[cetoole]

Edited December 6, 2011 by cetoole

[cetoole]

Edited December 6, 2011 by cetoole

[VPI]

Great shots. You sure get a completely different perspective with the crop factor and your longer zoom. I could not even get that lion. Looks like Red Panda Fight Club in your picture there. I do not remember the one killing and eating the other as it was obviously about to do in your picture.

[Torpedo]

Jeff, Colin, wonderful pics. Thanks for sharing.

[VPI]

Just a few more.

[morphsci]

Really great pictures Jeff and Colin. Looks like a good time for you and the animals.

[Jon L]

Canon 70-200 f2.8 II arrived. This baby is huge and heavy as expected, and I am very happy to report that it works GREAT with Kenko C-AF 1.4X Teleplus Pro 300 extender, yielding very sharp photo's at effective 448 mm reach on crop body.

The 4-Stop IS really works because I can get sharper photo's at 200mm with IS in dim indoors compared to non-IS 135mm L.

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Canon 70-200 f2.8 II by drjlo1, on Flickr

Canon 70-200 f2.8 II by drjlo1, on Flickr

Edited December 6, 2011 by Jon L

[Dreadhead]

I have had great luck with my Nikon 70-200 on a Nikon 2X teleconverter. I even did some test pics with a tripod and bill a while back and I was very happy with it: in other words I preferred the loss of sharpness rather than having to crop. It wasn't even close.

[shellylh]

Great pics Colin - I see you are having fun with your new toys.

[Jon L]

Testing the 70-200 II

IMG_7010Velvia by drjlo1, on Flickr

Edited December 8, 2011 by Jon L

[The Monkey]

Here's a snap from the lobby of my office with the S95. Leaving aside the composition, is the IQ ok?

Untitled by Head-Fi Monkey, on Flickr

[grawk]

who can tell at that low resolution

[The Monkey]

I hate Flickr.

[grawk]

just enjoy the beautiful pictures (or music, or wine)

[crappyjones123]

dinny, www.imgur.com

[The Monkey]

Well, now, I like that interface much better. Is this resolution improved? (Sorry guys, I don't know shit about photography.)

[grawk]

pick a spot on the picture, maybe 1/20th of the image. Crop that at full size and upload it, hopefully with 0 compression etc. It's like asking us to compare how a cd sounds with 128k mp3s

[cetoole]

Dinny if you want to play with another recent point and shoot (Canon SX230), I can drop one off so you can compare them. How dark is your lobby, and what are the settings? I cannot pull exif data out of those pictures.

[deepak]

That is a heck of a collection of toys going to the kids, nice of you lawyers to do something kind for someone

[The Monkey]

I thought those toys were for me.