why would I

why would i sell this camera

shot taken sigma 28-300mm f3.5-6.3 on lens and hand held 100% crop 6mg




James?????

Good question! Mind you, the IQ of a picture usually has more to do with the lens that you used, hasn't it? Could you post a larger copy of the picture? I quite like it, but I'm sure it'd look even better at a bigger size.

here you go uncropped and straight from my sd card,no pshop




hope you like it

James

Just a point, 100% crop there would be no photo, don't you mean 50%

no I've just been on ps and zoomed it to 100% and there is still a image

James

I think you're getting confused as to what a 100% crop is. It is simply a part of the original image shown in its original resolution (ie. not resized at all)
100% = original size
crop = portion of image

So this is a full image resized for display on the web: (roughly 15% of its original size)

[IMG]http://i134.photobucket.com/albums/q105/RR76/DUCKYFULL.jpg[/IMG]

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And this is a 100% crop from the original image:

[IMG]http://i134.photobucket.com/albums/q105/RR76/DUCKYCROP.jpg[/IMG]

isn't that what i said ?

I'm confused o'well 100% crop of the original image


and anyway it is still a sharp shot



James

James, you've posted a crop of the resized image. Not a crop of the original image.

James as a matter of interest did you apply any sharpening in the RAW conversion or did you shoot JPEG?

I know RR shoots RAW and is careful with his conversion process so that his duck is bitingly sharp as you can see.

Personally I find camera shake to be a huge enemy and I will use a tripod where I can (such as my entry in the fortnightly competition) or a monopod again if I can.

Mike

no this is straight from raw file no pp

I don't know how to sharpen yet

what you see on this image is how it was shot

James

Surely if you used RAW then some conversion took place somewhere as we are looking at a JPEG I guess so something was used to convert the RAW file. Have you tried running it through something like SilkyPix (of which there is a free version) that takes the RAW file and will convert to JPEG or TIFF giving you some simple options for sharpening within the conversion?

You might find that it can add a little more value to your shot - I certainly found this to be true and the added control of how much sharpening was very useful and taught me a lot.

Mike

I wonder if we're seeing a small jpeg shot in camera here ?

No offence meant here James, but if you don't know how to sharpen I'm guessing you have little experience, so you may be unaware that a "RAW" file refers to a file of pure data from the camera sensor & has not been processed by the camera in any way. I'm presuming here that you've set the camera to record "small" jpegs which would explain the size. Also, depending on how you have the camera set up, a jpeg will have been "processed" by the camera in some way (sharpened, saturated, contrast boosted etc)