a second chance - Full Zoom

Yesterday I really was not happy how the long distance full zoom pictures turned out. But since I live directly on the ocean I get hazy days. So our dog head mountain what is just 400 meters distance looked already a bit hazy when I took the golf course pictures yesterday.

So with a crisp morning and the golfers already active I gave it another try.

I was asked to show the 0 zoom to get an idea what 20x cropped can do, so here is the 28mm view and a lossless crop with the full detail. You have a nice look of dog head mountain and the Caribbean. Sorry the tele is not that good to see the islands, they are just some 4 or 5000km away but the directionis right.

All pictures are lossless crops without recompression and since I cropped them to 1600x1600 they should show up just fine if you click them. I fixed both ISO at 100 since the SX10 tends to use ISO 200 when you are above 16x zoom to have at least 1/500 sec. 

Canon S2 12x ISO 100 1/1000 F4 handheld distance ca.400m



Canon SX10 20x ISO 100 1/320 F5.7 handheld  distance ca.400m

Canon SX10 20x ISO 100 1/320 F5.7 handheld continuous shooting at 1.4 pic/sec  distance ca.250m

Canon SX10 20x ISO 100 1/320 F5.7 handheld continuous shooting at 1.4 pic/sec  distance ca.230m

With these results even with no tripod at 20x I can live. I compared them with the tripod shots I took a few minutes earlier and there was no improvement in sharpness with the tripod shots.
So scratch my remarks from yesterday. The SX10 is significant better in usable resolution then the S2.