This was captured in my house garden. I have captured a few with minimum aperture but still couldn't gat a sharp image. The length of bee is about 5mm. Under a heavy crop, the noise can be seen even at ISO80. I used layer mask to apply noise reduction on the BG, and sharpen the bee by 150% with Unsharp Mask.



F8, 1/30

Please comment and advise how I could improve further.

This post has been edited by kelvinyam: Aug 4 2007, 10:09 AM

don't know why Canon didn't handle noise of PnS systems as well as they done with DSLR. i also find noise at ISO 100 of my S3 IS too like your pic, if increase shuttle speed will get sharper image but also need to increase ISO so noise....wao

maybe coz they don care really much on that aspect?

The noise is due to sensor size. The higher megapixel per square mm, the higher the noise.

so how Fujifilm does so great to handle noise with their PnS ? almost their PnS very clean even at ISO 800

prosumer cam mar...but i must admit...its quite a decent performance...

I got to agree with you. When come to sensor, size does matter.

I would say Fuji has a very good image processor. At high ISO, it seems it's better than Digic III, at noise handling.

For the price of RM1400, I'm afraid we can't demand for more.

whoa...we here PC FAIR somemore..selling at 1699...

I think even for the later S5IS, many shops do offer RM1400. You get cheap printer in PC Fair, not camera

my place "pc fair" is only stock "clearence fair"...

I was in a chicken rice shop today...



F2.7, 1/10

cha siao!!!

Flower


F8, 1/250

Butterfly #1

F2.7, 1/320

Butterfly #2

F2.7, 1/400

I wish the background for butterfly shots was less "busy", but couldn't find a better angle.

This post has been edited by kelvinyam: Aug 5 2007, 05:20 PM

2and 3 de insect doesn't suit the flower le......

Later tonight I'll clone off all those busy BG and I guess it will be better.
What do you mean by not suiting the flower?

in terms of color wise...brown+green doesnt give a strong contrast...just my opinion...no offence...

You got a point. No wonder I keep wondering something is not right... brown and green doesn't really match that well.

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Added on August 5, 2007, 6:55 pmMore flowers:

#1

F3.5, 1/100

#2

F3.5, 1/160

#3

F5, 1/125

#4

F3.5, 1/200

Comments and critiques are welcome.

This post has been edited by kelvinyam: Aug 5 2007, 07:03 PM

nice angles you have there..but is this from your garden? oh ya...why your aperture so low can still take so nice closeup? i tot need put much higher? i dunno anything bout it so need ask...heheeh...

Yeah, these were taken from my mum-in-law's garden. She like planting lots of flowers

Large aperture (small F number) will shallow the DOF. Since the object is not too small, so it's kinda compensated. If I'm taking insects, the aperture will need to be smaller to keep most of it within the focus range.

Photo #1, #3 and #4 were taken at the max focal range. I zoom all to the max on my S3 to take those shots. I can have a nicer bokeh doing this than open up the aperture.

let me see...if you set it lower means you get wider DOF right...so for close ups...if you set it lower then the background wont be so blurred? shallow means blurrier or less blur?