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From a quick dog walk at the back of my house using the only camera I have found up to yet a 2mp 2003 Kodak point and shoot. ( just moved in)

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Those are remarkably good for 2MP.
 
The thing it suffers from are white skies , I have to under expose then bring up the shadows and then it still doesn't work some time. Dynamic range is a a problem but that said it does work well for what it is. Not one for the pixel peepers !
 
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New verses old, same conditions both on auto


Kodak point and shoot 2003 2mp point and shoot 692kb file as standard
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Today 2020 Sony A6000 6.5MB file when converted to .JPG 10 times very nearly the size of the first one. I've had to down size to post here so not a great comparison.

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My impressions First one ( old camera) has more noise in the sky colours look better straight from camera.
Second newer camera colours look awful ( TP makes then look worse but they are awful) and focus is really soft must have been a relatively a long shutter speed as the dog running is blurred. I did try to bring the colours back but they seemed to look odd any way I tried it ( I'm no expert on processing )

This leaves me very impressed by the old camera and very disappointed by the newer one ! Any body want a Sony A6000 ? I even double checked is was on auto focus rather than manual ( it has happened before) and checked the lens again for dirt .
 
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A bit of a weird one ! My home made end fed Half wave dual band 2 meters and 70cm Ham radio antenna under test at ground level. First contact about 30 miles away on just 1 watt transmitter power. The bricks in my house must have a very high carbon content as radio signals are near totally shielded from one side of the house to the other.

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