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SLR vs Point & Shoot...your pick?

pinealbanypinealbany Posts: 446 ✭
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#1 D-SLR Nikon D80 w/ Panagor Manual Macro Lens.------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 2 Nikon 4500 Point & Shoot w/ Macro.

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  • lcoopielcoopie Posts: 8,874 ✭✭✭✭✭
    P & S looks better focused, and better #2
    LCoopie = Les
  • barbershopperbarbershopper Posts: 1,201
    That's a tough one! I've used SLR for so long I'm prejudiced but I'm talking about shooting slides.
    Slide film is getting so hard to find and expensive I've switched to P & S.
    I can take 10,000 pics with an 8 GB memory card at fairly high resolution and be pretty sure I'm
    getting at least 1000 good ones. I guess that's progress.
    Also, my wife travels more than I do and she's never had anything but a P & S even when she
    was shooting slides. We're going to Africa next year for 6 weeks and I'll be shooting video while
    she takes the stills. She may just end up with 10,000!
    JET

    Edited to say I didn't realize you were talking about shooting coins.
    Your pics took a while to load. I get good pics of coins with a P & S Nikon
    with a 1.7" macro setting using florescent lighting.
    It is health that is real wealth, not pieces of gold and silver. Gandhi.

    I collect all 20th century series except gold including those series that ended there.
  • micmtmicmt Posts: 671
    The obverse on the PS is better focused while the reverse is better focused with the SLR.

    I love my DSLR and thought it gave easier handling ability and better photos than any of the PS cameras I ever had.
    "One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making new discoveries" -A.A. Milne
  • phehpheh Posts: 1,588 ✭
    Dynamic ranges look similar, but you are effectively taking a black and white shot there. You really want to test, or ask our opinions of, color images. The point and shoot looks like it was probably sharpened automatically in the camera.
  • RayboRaybo Posts: 5,343 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Something is not exactally right.
    Might be different lighting but the P&S looks to have some kind of "flare" to it.

    ISO and in camera sharpening might have something to do with it, and are these Jpegs?

    Can't really compare the two unless you you have the same lens and settings for both.
    The D80 should be the clear winner with the proper settings.


    Ray
  • derrybderryb Posts: 37,969 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Kodak 5MP DX7590 P&S (fixed lens) with close up filter attached to optional lens tube (i prefer a P&S for simplicity when it comes to coins):

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    If you understand what is coming, then you can duck. If not, then you get sucker-punched. - Martin Armstrong

  • Type2Type2 Posts: 13,985 ✭✭✭✭✭
    #2 look sharper.


    Hoard the keys.

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