SLR vs Point & Shoot...your pick?

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• lcoopie Posts: 8,874 ✭✭✭✭✭

  October 18, 2008 12:04PM

  P & S looks better focused, and better #2

  LCoopie = Les

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• barbershopper Posts: 1,201

  October 18, 2008 12:23PM

  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.

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• micmt Posts: 671

  October 18, 2008 12:49PM

  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

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• pheh Posts: 1,588 ✭

  October 18, 2008 12:50PM

  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.

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• Raybo Posts: 5,343 ✭✭✭✭✭

  October 18, 2008 1:24PM

  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

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• derryb Posts: 37,969 ✭✭✭✭✭

  October 18, 2008 1:57PM

  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):
  
  
  
  

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

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• Type2 Posts: 13,985 ✭✭✭✭✭

  October 18, 2008 2:33PM

  #2 look sharper.

  
  
  Hoard the keys.

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