Originally posted by ejbpesca Ahhh, all good advice. Two things stand out for me....sensor size and lens quality. Big sensor and high grade lens. I will review these replies and figure out maybe the last camera I will ever buy.
Thanks....now to another forum or something. This laptop just got hit by something claiming to be Vista virus protection. Totally locked up the computer. I'm running off a restore point right now but not working well at all.
May have to swipe this thing clean and reload with disc. Oh lord I guess that means all day updates.
Hope you folks out there did not get this very nasty virus I just got today. It is bad news.
Back to matter at hand...I have no expensive lenses, so whatever the camera all i get is midocre reulat.
Thanx again. (my lil x90 is looking better every day)..
jb
Sorry to here about your computer. My girlfriends had to be saved after some problem. The restore program helped save all the documents but all the programs had to put back on.
As to the camera, I have a little S1500 bridge camera I use a either a backup or secondary camera when shooting and I what multiple cameras with me. It is about the same as you X90 but only with a 12x zoom. I get some good result with it as long as the ISO setting is set in the lower settings. If I put two prints side by side, one one could really tell the difference if it was my Pentax K-m or Fuji in a 5 by 7 or 8 by 10 print sizes. Only the small differences in the colour remindering will be the telling difference. Todays cameras all give fairly good overall picture quality. Unless you are looking at doing giant sized poster prints, the cameras you have will do the jobs you want.
At some point they will break down though. The newer digital cameras will never have the live span of the older film cameras. I owned a Fuji S5000 and after only 5 years the ccd senser died.
The one item never mentioned was the difference in the DOF. The X90 will have a relativity larger DOF when compared to larger senser sized D-slr due to the smaller focal length used in the design. I find this helps in some macro picture taking conditions. The other limiting factor on the X90 is the limited range of aperture. I have no idea of what the X90's aperture range is but my Fuji S1500 only has a f stop range of 4 stops. This is about half of a D-slr camera. Since the focal length on the bridge cameras is so small the need for small apertures is not really needed.