6MP Canon challenges 10.3MP Sigma SD9

Ok. This is straight out of camera, but not shot with a macro lens so it's
is pretty blurry for an Sigma image. The background is a paper table
napkin, field of view is about 5 inches...

http://www.pbase.com/image/25834826/medium

 

what faded colors...

 

^^ Has to make excuses^^

 

Canon is not competive.

 

The very blurry 6MP Canon 10D is not competive, not even remotely. The
10.3MP Sigma carries at least 4X the optical color resolution due to design
efficiencies on top on its huge sensor count advantage, as anyone can
plainly see...

http://homepage.mac.com/sjs/Jelly_Beans.jpg
http://www.pbase.com/image/25834826/medium

 

THe problem is, the Foveon design requires three times as many sensors
to make one pixel. Thus, you have 10M photo sensors covering only 3.3 M
pixels.

Gary Eickmeier

 

but it certainly makes the faded colors of the sigma look poor.
naturally, they are poor.

 

Man, what an ugly, low-resolution, low-contrast photo. Have you *ever*
taken a photo that's actually worth looking at?
And how come you shot jujubes instead of jelly beans? - Too scared that
your SD9 shot would look crap if you made it too similar to the 10D
image? Or are you so blind that you thought that they /were/ jelly
beans?

And when are you going to post a high-ISO SD9 night shot, seeing as you
claim that the SD9 is less noisy than a 10D?

 

Only in the sense that the SD9 isn't even in the race.

 

Its ok, but has maybe 25% the optical resolution. The beans are really
fuzzy sts.

Your beans are fuzzy. Especially the red ones.

 

Here is the same scene as shot with a Canon 10D...
http://www.pbase.com/image/25866337/medium

 

The true problem is not using sensors to make a pixel.

 

Not according to the EXIF data on that photo:
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Full EXIF Info
Date/Time 07-Feb-2004 21:53:38
Make Sigma
Model SD9
Flash Used Yes
Focal Length 60 mm
Exposure Time 1/180 sec
Aperture f/11
ISO Equivalent 100
Exposure Bias -3
White Balance (-1)
Metering Mode matrix (5)
JPEG Quality (6)
Exposure Program manual (1)

 

I agree with Berny Meyer's comment on that page.

Bart

 

Yes dear George, It's bloody horrible crap. And a glance at the EXIF
explains why.
(In order to show a horrible picture Georgy Boy has to use an SD9, but he
lies and say it was taken with a Canon.)

 

In message <4026622b$0$10339$>,

The "original" on pbase is upsized to 3024*2016, so he softened it as
well as mis-labelled it. The "original" also has heavy JPEG
artifacting.

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... snip ...

Hi George,
Every time but one that I look at a picture you post it is very soft and
you have an excuse for it.
It that because of the camera or the photographer?
Thanks
Mike Johnston

 

Kibo informs me that stated that:

At least that's a reasonable facsimile of the SD9s aliasing.

 

In message <>,

How so? Not even the original SD9 image had aliasing; the focus was too
soft for aliasing.
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Kibo informs me that stated that:

Oh, I just mean of SD9 shots in general, rather than Preddy's
incompetant photos in particular.