Canon SD600 vs Canon SD800 Camera Photo Quality
Ben and I were grabbing some tea at a Minneapolis coffee shop last week when Ben
spotted this guy working on a ladder leaning on . . . the wire.
Aaron Landry's comment on my Flickr account summed up the reason for taking the
photos below:
We happened to have a
Canon
SD600 and
Canon
SD800 camera with us at the time. Ben took the same photo with both cameras
only seconds apart. Can you tell the difference?
Photo A:
Photo B:
We thought the sign on the building and the sky were less washed out in Photo B.
Notice any other differences?
The price difference is currently $75 ($249 vs $324).
You can find out which photo was taken with which camera by clicking on the
photos. The Flickr photo pages list the cameras used along the right column.
The sun angle is quite different between the two photos which indicates more than a couple of minutes difference in time.
This is important because the sun angle in the first photo would cause it to be more reflective than the second one. For this size photo the difference in Mpixels between the cameras should not be a factor.
The wire the man is leaning on is main line coax for the local cable company. There is about a 3/8 inch steel cable supporting the wiring - you can see it where the coax makes a little dip near the pole. It is perfectly safe to lean a ladder on this cable. The ladders the cable companies use actually have hooks at the top specifically for that purpose. It's really steady near the pole, but when you have to climb the middle of a span it can test your nerves.
I am not sure what you were taught, but I was taught that girls like cute, small cameras, and so I bought a Canon SD600. w00t
1. Posted by: Aaron Landry on April 23, 2007 10:08 AM:
I bet if the same aperture and shutter speed was used they'd look almost identical. The SD600 shot at 1/320 f/4.9 and the SD800 shot at 1/250 f/5.8. I assume both were done on auto and while the shutter and f-stop are close, it's enough to make the difference that's shown.