Digital SLR, or Compact? Part 2
A nice clear image with very liitle chromatic aberration
in the Canon D20 100% crop.
The Fuji Finepix E900 has a reputation for producing purple fringing in shots taken against the light. It’s true I’ve experienced this problem myself in a few shots. Usually this occurs in extreme circumstances when the difference in exposure for the subject and background has exceeded three, or perhaps four stops.
In this test I captured two images. The first was shot on the Canon D20 with a Canon 100/300 zoom lens on the 100mm setting, [35 mm equivalent perspective 160 mm]. The picture was taken against the sky in an attempt to ‘encourage’ some kind of flinging, probably purple, because of chromatic aberration.
The second image was taken with the Fuji Finepix E900 using the 28mm setting on the zoom, [equivalent perspective 130mm on a 35mm camera]. The sensor setting for both cameras was set at 400 ISO, and in addition to some slight chromatic aberration considerable ‘grain’ is evident in the blue sky in the E900 image.
Please remember that these images represent just 1200 pixels taken from original of 8,185.344 and 17,449,832 recorded RAW pixels in for the Canon D20 and Fuji Finepix E900 respectively. What you see in these cropped pictures will be scarcely apparent in prints of 10″ x 8″, or even larger prints sizes!
A much more granular result from the E900
with some purple fringing beginning to appear
in the more contrasty areas of the image.
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