Yellow-crowned Night-Heron

I found that my cheap ND filter makes the whole picture blurry.

[Logic tells me that if an increase in ISO means that my camera indicates that I have fewer exposures available than at 100 iso, then ISO does increase file size and write times. But then I may just be old and foolish.[/quote]

I had never looked at the number of photos left display, with different ISO settings until I read your comment, and my numbers also change when I vary the ISO.

The hit the alt button should be Hold down the alt key and click the mouse

I focused in the middle and was surprised at the depth on all but the f3.5.

The markings on the Fuji hs10 show that 126 mm is equivalent to 720 mm on a 135 film camera. The 5.9 was from my memory and slightly off, it should be 720 by 126 giving 5.7 for the crop factor.

I made this test because I was getting great bird photos with the Fuji and was told that I could crop the Canon T3i 250 mm photos and get even better results. I only got better shots of birds when I put a 500 mm on the Canon

Thanks for all your comments, and I agree with most of the comments about a cropped view. The point I was trying to make is the smaller sensor uses all its megapixels for that cropped view. If you take the photo with a full frame camera, and then crop it down to that view, you have fewer pixels in the photo. I used the extreme example of the Fuji 5.9 crop factor to create an obvious example.

Danilo ,
I agree that both lenses were projecting the same magnification on the sensors positioned at the focal point. However the smaller Fuji sensor has more pixels activated by the license plate area, in my example, giving an image size of 214 kb, or 1023 x 679 pixels. The Canon sensor being larger has fewer pixels in the area and gives a much smaller 35 kb image, or 361 x 243 pixels. The smaller sensor gives a much clearer and magnified photo. I should not have used the words, more zoom.
Of course the results would be even worse for a full frame camera.
Doug

PS, The Canon picture quality is much better than the Fuji in normal use.

Does a crop factor give more zoom with a given lens, or does it just crop the photo? Since I think my Fuji with a 720 mm rating gets me a closer photo, than my Canon T3i does at an equivalent 193 rating. I tested the results of taking the same photo at 720 mm (126 mm actual) on the Fuji with its crop factor of 5.9, and set the Canon at 196 mm (123 actual) with its crop factor of 1.6.
After cropping them to the same view, the results show that the Canon shot is nowhere near as clear as the Fuji shot.
The crop factor does give more power to a lens.

We had a high cirrus layer last night; I did better with my practice shot on Friday.

I shot this handheld with the Sigma lens and UV filter, but have since removed the filter after listening to some friends.

Near Springhill, FL

Not very active since moving into an antenna restricted neighborhood, but still contacting old friends.

I agree with you that I did not do it right, but I think that a little bit would look nice.
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I am nearsighted and never like the reduced size of my eyes through the glasses. This was a quick try at resizing the eyes.