We’ve had pagoda plants in our garden almost since we moved in, and they are impressive most of the year but they do die back in the winter (Margaret cuts them back once they lose all their leaves) … but now with summer weather, they are back and beautiful again!
Shannon Till has sponsored a second annual car stroll in nearby Oakland and, like last year, I headed over to admire the cars and take some photos …
I was particularly impressed with the Captain Marvel theme of this vehicle …
Once again I took some comparison photos with my Nikon Coolpix P900 and my Sony DSC-HX400V, both high zoom – the Nikon offers 83x zoom and 16MP while the Sony “only” offers 50x zoom and 20MP. The Sony is also a more recent design and I’d expect it to be better.
However once again in most of these comparison photos, the Nikon is better for me – these combo photos all have Nikon on the left, Sony on the right. There’s no editing for exposure / color / etc, just the necessary cropping/pasting to combine the images.
First, here’s a photo of a hawk in a tree in the distance; you probably would not spot it if I hadn’t added the arrow:
Now let’s go to high zoom from the same spot, and then crop to have mostly just the hawk; for me the colors of the bird are better in the Nikon:
Next the bird moved so I took another pair of photos – in this comparison the Nikon is over-exposed while the Sony I’d say is a bit under-exposed (I could edit these for actual use):
Finally, I switched to taking photos of a nearby flower – in both cases I zoomed in to just the flower; the leaves are perhaps better in the Sony, but the flowers are over-exposed:
I cropped to include just of the flower and part of the leaf; for me, there’s again more definition in the Nikon image:
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