I am looking for comparison pictures from digital cameras and wondered how Imaging Resource conducted their tests. How is it that the house picture, angle, sun lighting, plant position, etc. appears the same for a two year old Cannon test (and most others) as it does for the new Nikon Coolpix 990.

-- Gary (garyi@thevine.net), April 14, 2000

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urm.. they usually stay the same... except for some fading on those posters in due time... posters rarely grow more foiliage ;)

-- Keat Lim (keatlim@my-deja.com), April 14, 2000.

Ha, my mistake. I like your humor Keat. Guess my assumptions of a photo of a house being an outdoor shot were wrong. I didn't see the "this is a copy of a poster" reference anywhere, or in the case of it being a poster, what kelvin the copy lights were. Since the test description page seems to be "under construction", could you or someone point me to where I could have found out it was a poster?

By the way, I do actually appreciate the information Imaging Resouce provides.

-- Gary (garyi@thevine.net), April 17, 2000.

I.R normally post two house shots, and one of them *is* actually an outdoor one - the "far field" test is a real, outdoor photo of the same house in the poster, and subsequently there are changes in the trees, sky, etc etc.

Greg.

-- Greg Sullivan (gregory.sullivan@compaq.com), April 19, 2000.

Hi, Gary - if no one e-mailed you this yet, the site has, tucked away in a remote corner, a very interesting explanation of their test images

http://www.imaging-resource.com/IMCOMP/COMPS01.HTM

once there - at the Comparometer(?) page - pull all the way to the bottom of the SIDE frame - down past all the image icons to the exclamation mark icon - that's it, take that link.

-- E. Morrisot (we108918@nassaulibrary.org), April 19, 2000.