More EOS 300D images with a 50mm

[benlimt]

Totted my Canon EOS 300D to a local fashion show today. Here are 4 shots.
More EOS 300D Pictures (http://zplus.clubsnap.org/images/20030923_300d/index2.html)

[soumya63]

Nice exposure and timing.

Can you please provide the aperture and shutter speed info.? The pictures are bit soft. I wonder is it due to micro shake, model movement or focussing problem.

Soumya

www.mitraphoto.com

[gandini]

These certainly are soft images, but how can we judge a 300x450 pixel image? Maybe the larger photos are sharp. Also, if these haven't been sharpened in post processing, they represent the original out-of-camera sharpness setting, which most people would want to be on the soft side to allow for greater flexibility in editing later.

cheers,

[soumya63]

Even with low resolution, sharp images does not look that soft. For example these are two of my photographs, heavily compressed but first one still looks sharp enough

http://www.mitraphoto.com/images/naca0103.jpg

and the second one is an example of a soft image due to movement of the subject at slow shutter speed.

http://www.mitraphoto.com/images/ctca0103.jpg

Soumya

www.mitraphoto.com

[Woodman7]

Even with low resolution, sharp images does not look that soft. For example these are two of my photographs, heavily compressed but first one still looks sharp enough


and the second one is an example of a soft image due to movement of the subject at slow shutter speed.

Both look sharp to me at that small size. I guess I am having a hard time seeing the soft part of picture 2?

[soumya63]

The cable car. :)

The other part of the picture are sharp as the camera was mounted on a Gitzo tripod. Lens was 70-200Lf2.8 and the aperture was f8 I guess.

[soumya63]

gandini wrote:
... Also, if these haven't been sharpened in post processing, they represent the original out-of-camera sharpness setting, which most people would want to be on the soft side to allow for greater flexibility in editing later.


I would prefer to get sharp out of the camera image which will require no unsharp mask. If I need softness, a little bit of G Blur will do the trick. Actually Canon does this deliberate blurring to eliminate the jaggies and
Moire pattern problem of the digital sensor. As the technology improves, I am very sure Canon will provide us much sharper out of the Camera images.

Soumya

www.mitraphoto.com

[gandini]

While sharp images out-of-the-camera might be desirable for some, and the ultimate goal of camera manufacturers, from the hundreds, if not thousands, of posts I've seen here, and on Fred Miranda, and Rob Galbraith, and most other dedicated digital photo web forums, I'd have to say that most serious photographers don't want the camera manufacturers deciding what level of sharpness they get in their images. If the camera outputs an image at a given level of sharpness, the photographer cannot "deconstruct" the sharpness after the fact. (I'm not talking RAW images here, since these make the idea of camera sharpness a moot issue.) It must also be recognized that resolution is completely different from sharpness. Resolution is a physical property of the lens-sensor mechanism, whereas sharpness is a visual-subjective property of the final image.
I don't want Canon to decide the latter for me, but I sure want them to work their tails off improving the former!

cheers,