I must just mention that when I did the lens tests I did, the target was a mixture of fine detail and larger areas to enable some sort of impression of lens performance to be obtained.

When I took the files I examined the unsharpened pictures and then again with sharpening at 50% USM.

What I was referring to, though, was not sharpness per se, but resolution, which is a different matter. The 750Z resolved finer writing than any of the other lenses tested, DSLR included, simply on the basis that you could clearly read the finest print in the test target on the 750Z and you could only just make it out on the best DSLR lenses. It was unreadable on the 24-90mm.

All I can suggest is that you try it for yourselves with an open mind!

Oh, yes.....12-24mm....Mmmmm....

I recently ran a lens test for a talk I was doing at ADAPS, and the results were astonishing. I compared the *ist DS with 18-55mm and 24-90mm, a Fuji S2 Pro with Nikkor 28-105mm, a Fuji S7000 and a Pentax 750Z.

I mention this again because you mentioned the 24-90mm, and it really performed very poorly on my close up target. The SMC Pentax-A 35-70mm f4, excellent on film, was even worse on the CCD and I can only describe it as abysmal.

The real star was the 750Z, which out-resolved everything else, and I know elsewhere some found that hard to believe, but that's the way it was...

Thanks, Matt, what a terrific excuse for more lenses....why didn't I think of that?

That's a brave admission, so I'll too confess to making better black and white prints on my inkjet printer than many of my darkroom efforts!

We use the Epson 1290s A3+ printer, which is relatively inespensive and prduces stunning results. Thoroughly recommended.

Matt has covered everything else!

Here's an attempt with your code, fingers crossed!

As you can see, you just need to click on the line. In some forums you do need to cut and paste, but not in this one.

Hope that helps a bit!

Well, no it doesn't! But you can cut and paste the following line into your browser, which would direct us to your picture on the web:

http://www.lcpu.org/gallery/albums/userpics/10012/normal_Sophie%7E0.jpg

It should work.....

Just to see if it will work, here I'm attempting to put in a picture of Sophie:

<img src="http://www.lcpu.org/gallery/albums/userpics/10012/normal_Sophie%7E0.jpg">

As Peter mentions, this site is where to show your pictures:

www.ephotozine.com

You can "hotlink" pictures into this forum, but not from every site. What you need is your picture already on another web site, and then you put a line of code into your message that tells the software where to find the picture!

Ironically, you can't hotlink a picture from ePHOTOzine, but you can from many sites.

It's easier to set up an ePHOTOzine identity!