Friday, April 24, 2009

Close-Up/Macro comparison of DSLR and compact cameras

The earlier post of the dragonfly may not reflect what a shivering photographer can do with a compact in a swimming pool.  In this very short posting, I decided to take 2 close-up shots using a DSLR and a compact.

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Dragonfly with Canon IXUS 75

Note that this is not a good comparison but it gives an idea of a mid-end compact (Canon IXUS 75) versus a low end DSLR (Sony Alpha 200).  Firstly, they are both of different mega pixels in size and these shots are taken handheld.  The compact is without any add-ons, just using Macro mode whilst the DSLR has a cheap +4 close-up filter attached to the lens.

DSLR

Sony Alpha 200 DSLR

compact

Canon IXUS 75

These are not 100% crops as they are of different sizes but it gives an idea of the sharpness that’s missing from the compact.  Of course, a high-end compact with larger sensors would probably do a lot better.

However, as evident in the dragonfly picture above, some level of sharpness can be achieved with a compact.  New generation compact, although with smaller sensors are actually quite good.

2 comments:

kuanhoong said...

Hmm what are that two black thing aa?

Vivien said...

wow, good post, was thinking of buying ixus 75