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RIP Coolpix 950

March 11, 2006

Somebody who loves me very much got me a Nikon D50 digital SLR for my birthday. I could gush on and on about how fast the interface is, and how easily I can zoom and focus it, or how amazing the optics are.

But instead, I thought I'd give a little demonstration of just how much more resolution it has than my old Nikon Coolpix 950, may it frolic forever in old-digital-camera-heaven.

Here is a photo taken with my old camera. Inset are the raw pixels from the image, at full resolution:

And now here's a similar photo taken today with my new camera, with a snippet of the full resolution inset. (To be fair to the coolpix, I had better light today with the D50):

I've had decent luck with prints at as low as 100dpi if you use a good photo process, so that means that a single photo from my new camera can be printed at up to 30"x20". In other words, size does matter.

Posted by rus at 06:50 PM

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