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take a look at this nikon D90 photo, the skin tone is smooth, and no color seperation, and yea, no noise, damn smooth!(too smooth, i like) because the NR smoothen it for u! i rather smoothen it myself via photoshop, why built in smoothen not good? look at the hair~ like waterpainting... no details aka Terrible IQ, if this were a hair show (which it is,...) the hair lost all details~ now, i rather have a detailed hair (see sony) then trying to recover or sharpen a blur hair.

next, look at the (her right) cheek/jaw line to the neck beside the black hair, due to 'softening/smoothing' nikon require to do sharpening to the photo (impossible u wan see blur 'line' like the hair at the mouth, noise, eye....  they Artificially Sharpen it... w00t, and the sharpening cause 'zigzag'(oversharpen effect that u can see in photoshop) feeling that felt like high compression photo. btw, the 12mp D90 jpeg is larger then A550 14mp jpeg.


my old 450D, which i kinda miss it a lot.

i was surprise how nikon at iso800, lost so much detail on the skin, and the hair too... canon, well is such old body, skintone is weak, but the hair details is so much obvious better IQ then nikon. the oversharpening effect on lips with nikon just spoil the lip.

i own these 3, and i dont miss D90 at all, not at all.

nikon NR is set to Auto, Sony is default auto, canon is default auto.