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Message: <blockquote data-quote="jekatz" data-source="post: 780643" data-attributes="member: 24415">I started with a Sony W5 last year and now have a W7 coming in the mail to take advantage of the higher megapixel count (it may not have been worth it...).  The W5 is a great camera, and I believe the W7 is identical (with the megapixel exception), so I look forward to using it as well.  Both have similar if not the same innards as the P200 if I read DPReview.com correctly last year.  Correct me if I am wrong, but isn't it the W7 that has threads for a lens adapter, while the W70 is essentially identical but lacks the filter thread?  Attached are two ISO 200 shots with the W7 and a Zeiss Diascope 85 and zoom eyepiece, eyepiece at 20x and camera at 1.5x.  The American Kestrels are heavily cropped and it was a low-light shot so it had some really ugly color noise out of the camera.  I can't find the original, or I would have posted it instead.  This one has gone through a hefty round with Noiseware plus a lot of layer mask shadow recovery and selective desaturations; if I recall, the ugly color noise was specifically big blotches of color, mostly reds.  With a subject this small and so far away I classify this image as barely acceptable.  The Marsh Wren on the other hand is very lightly cropped for composition but otherwise only lightly edited in Photoshop.  My distance to the bird was probably only 4 meters.  The light was great and with the bird filling so much of the frame noise wasn't really an issue; this one was a keeper!  I took this one without a tripod; the scope rested on a wire fence, so the higher ISO helped eliminate camera shake.Jon</blockquote>

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