Is the A2 in-camera processing equal to the other 8 megapixel brands?

Steven Fernandez said:

Paxman,

do you know if there is a way to quantify the macro capabilities? I
know the oly lets you get 5cm away and the A2 is 13cm. In general
the macro shots I have seen taken with the 8080 are much more
impressive then what I have seen with the A2. This comes from
frequenting both forums. I have not shot macros with either camera
but I get a feeling that the DOF in macro shots with the 8080 is
much greater then with the A2.

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Frank Steiner said:

I spent the evening last night redoing my site in accordance with
your suggestions. My site went from 84 Mbytes to 28Mbytes. It is
much faster.

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Frank Steiner said:

That would reduce the site size considerably more if and
add additional speed if needed. Look forward to your comments with
the work that I have already done.

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Frank Steiner said:

Thanks again for your advise...it is surely appreciated!

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HenkH said:

album pages are still the same as the actual images (just resized
by the browser). It's better to make small thumbnails and let them
link to the normal sized images. I'm not familiar enough with
Frontpage to tell you how to do that...

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HenkH said:

Frank Steiner said:

I spent the evening last night redoing my site in accordance with
your suggestions. My site went from 84 Mbytes to 28Mbytes. It is
much faster.

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It's better now.

HenkH said:

That would reduce the site size considerably more if and
add additional speed if needed. Look forward to your comments with
the work that I have already done.

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The size of the actual images is fine now. The thumbnails on the
album pages are still the same as the actual images (just resized
by the browser). It's better to make small thumbnails and let them
link to the normal sized images. I'm not familiar enough with
Frontpage to tell you how to do that...

HenkH said:

Thanks again for your advise...it is surely appreciated!

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It seems you have an interest in big bikes (I prefer the
man-powered ones), bikes are made for motion, so....

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Frank Steiner said:

Frank Steiner said:

album pages are still the same as the actual images (just resized
by the browser). It's better to make small thumbnails and let them
link to the normal sized images. I'm not familiar enough with
Frontpage to tell you how to do that...

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What you are saying with this is that I have two images at the same
size? Wow! I must do something about that!! Back to work
tonight. Thanks for the continued feedback...you are being a
really big help in mentoring my attempts to do a web site...up to
now I had done everything on my own.

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HenkH said:

Frank Steiner said:

HenkH said:

album pages are still the same as the actual images (just resized
by the browser). It's better to make small thumbnails and let them
link to the normal sized images. I'm not familiar enough with
Frontpage to tell you how to do that...

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What you are saying with this is that I have two images at the same
size? Wow! I must do something about that!! Back to work
tonight. Thanks for the continued feedback...you are being a
really big help in mentoring my attempts to do a web site...up to
now I had done everything on my own.

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The images are actually the same (this is reason the second one
seems to load very fast). If you look at the HTML you see (angled
brackets replaced by square ones to keep the forum happy):

[a href = "images/Photo%20Images/Reflection.jpg"][ [I] a] [/I]

The first image-name is the reference to the image page, the second
one is the thumbnail on the album page which is resized (in the
browser) to 200x122 pixels. It's better to make a small thumbnail
image (e.g. tn_Reflection.jpg;) of the correct dimensions (200x122
in this case), so the HTML should become:

[a href = "images/Photo%20Images/Reflection.jpg"][img border="0"
src="images/Photo%20Images/tn_Reflection.jpg;" width="200"
height="122"][ [I] a] [/I]
[/QUOTE]

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Frank B said:

http://www.luminous-landscape.com/about/misc-moments.shtml

I use Raw so for me the ability of the A2 to process a Raw picture
(up to 3 frames) while I am taking another is critical. Also, the
high resolution EVF and the ability to see exposure changes in the
EVF are also major advantages for me. I would not dream of giving
it up for any of the other 8MP prosumer cameras and find that now
that I have the A2 I virtually never use my 10D.

digitalk said:

First of all this forum is amazing! Kudos to the people who
moderate it, etc.

I just purchased a Konica-Minolta A2. This is the most expensive
camera I ever purchased (new at $729). I'm waiting it for it to
arrive this week. But now I am worried that I chose the wrong
camera?

I know that Luminous-Landscape and CNet have highly rated this
camera, however, there seems to be a lot of criticism about the
images the A2 produces---in comparision to the Olympus, Sony, and
Nikon 8 megapixel camera class.

In this forum, people have pointed out that unlike the Olympus,
Sony, and Nikon models, the A2's settings are defaulted to minimize
in-camera processing by design. In this way, you get to have
maximum control over the image in post-processing programs
(Photoshop CS, Flashblade, etc.).

To me this makes perfect sense. And of course, as you'd expect from
a high end camera, the A2 gives you the option to change the
default setup and have the A2 to process images (i.e., turn on the
Vivid color, hard sharpening features and then shoot).

My questions are:

1) if I leave the A2 in automatic mode, with JPG fine format, and
make sure that Vivid color and Hard Sharpening have been switched
on, can I expect the images from the A2 to be as good as the
Olympus, Nikon and Sony models?

2) Also, is it a fact that if you do not do post processing, the
Olympus, Sony, and Nikon 8 megapixel camera images are
significantly better than the A2 no matter what. But the A2 has
other features that make shooting simplier and that is why people
recommend it, despit the image quality issue?

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--
Frank B

My camera (XYZ) is better than your camera (XYZ).

Pictures (A2, 10D, E10, Nikon 5700)

http://www.photo.net/photodb/folder?folder_id=234606

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