Paint-like effect on digital images

[daphz]

I just switched from using a Canon Ixus 40 to a Panasonic FX9. Both point-and-shoot slim cameras.

I noticed that the digital images I get are slightly different. With the Canon, when you zoom in on the images, there is a pixelated kind of look. With the Panasonic, it looks like the image was 'painted'. I am not sure why this is so. Is it the lens difference? Can anyone offer more information on this? Thanx

[green_leaf]

zoom and get pixelated?
Just to ask did you use digital zoom?
Cause digital zoom WILL make picture look pixelated.

[daphz]

No digital zoom on both, I never use it.

[billpepsi]

Originally Posted by daphz No digital zoom on both, I never use it.

are the photos viewed at 25%, 50% etc....

[daphz]

nope. The difference in zoom doesn't matter. hmmm don't know how to explain better what I mean...

[Hoky]

Originally Posted by daphz nope. The difference in zoom doesn't matter. hmmm don't know how to explain better what I mean...

What jeff means is that expand both pictures to the same scale. i.e. 100% magnification.
You should never compare a smaller magnification to a larger one.

[daphz]

Originally Posted by Hoky What jeff means is that expand both pictures to the same scale. i.e. 100% magnification. You should never compare a smaller magnification to a larger one.

I understood what jeff meant When I said it doesn't matter I meant that no matter which zoom (both at 200%, 400%, etc.) I view it at, I would see the difference.

[rinaldi86]

Quote: Panasonic appears to have toned down the noise reduction slightly, producing less of the 'watercolor' effect

Less, not none. So your finding is okay.

http://www.dpreview.com/reviews/panasonicfx9/page8.asp

[daphz]

Those diagrams make the FX9 seem much lousier than the Fuji F10!