Battle of the irrelevant, The results show.
If you’ve been waiting to find out which point and shoot camera you should have bought ten years ago, your prolonged wait is over. PreviouslyI posted about the Canon Sure Shot Classic and the Pentax 24EW and now that I have the film back and scanned I was able to make a results comparison. Well the Pentax wins hands down from 24 to 38mm but considering the Canon starts at 38mm that isn’t praise. In almost ever picture under the same conditions the Canon produced a better result, both through exposure and image quality. As I used the same sensor (Kodak 400) it really did come down to the cameras. Here are some of the shots in a side by side. If it’s wide you want though the Pentax is the one.
Above you can see the Pentax can get a little closer for a zoomed macro and bellow the difference between 24 and 38mm is pretty clear.
This crop shows both cameras at there maximum zoom 120mm (Canon) vs 105mm (Pentax)
This detail crop really shows the difference. In all these pictures I’ve made no effort to deal with the grain of the film or optimize the images beyond trying to scan them accurately.
This just in Olympus has joined the conflict with the mju III 150 (circa 2003) with it’s 8 element ED 37.5mm to 150mm lens, stunning the competition, and again causing the Pentax to faint.
