small girl wants a small camera

[shortylickens]

http://www.dpreview.com/articles/8083837371/review-nokia-808-pureview

 

[alkemyst]

I completely disagree. Canon's models have improved by leaps and bounds over the last few years. Still plenty of room for improvement, but it's coming.

Features perhaps, in a few cases IQ went down like between the S95 and S100.

From the compact arena though, it's really nitpicking for most of these comparisions.

Now shot to shot time, video quality and the like do usually get improved.

 

[ZippyDan]

she ended up going with the s100 and is very happy with it ... thanks guys

 

[mchammer187]

As I understand, the F number is a ratio of the focal length to the diameter of the aperture. It doesn't tell you how much light gets through. You could have two lenses with the same max aperture but one could have a much bigger front element that sends more light through it.

No the F number is the same across sensor sizes

at F2.0 on a compact and F2.0 on a DSLR the exposure are supposed to be the same as long as the ISO and shutter speed are also the same.

larger sensors will introduce less noise at a given ISO but exposure levels are supposed to be equal

EDIT didn't see slashbinslashbin's reply so you can ignore this