Hey, instead of just talking about cameras, let's see some photos.
Okay, here are some from the new camera. I have enhanced these by adjusting the brightness, saturation, and sharpness to varying degrees, except the first one, which you can compare to the second to see how the image looked straight out of the camera, and how it looks after basic enhancement.
The images are all at 25% of the original file size.
Everyhting up to the turtle was my first trip where I had a polarizing filter on that I have since returned. The polarizing filter drops the exposure "two stops" which is a lot, and the result was almost all the photos from my first trip which was mostly in the woods, came out blurry. I thought the polarizing filter would make cool looking skies but it's really not worth the money.
I do have a UV filter on there though. That does not affect the exposure, reduces haze, and protects the lens.
The second trip which was to Maine and a second zoo I only put a few photos up of cause I got tired of editing them. :-) I'll put some more up later. That was a neat trip because the buttefly exhibit at the York zoo was new and I hadn't seen anything like that before. And with the ability to get real close to stuff with this new lens, I could get really great insect photos as you can see.
Btw, did you know explorer can rotate images for you? I just discovered that. I compared the images in photoshop to see if the rotated version lost any quality and the difference layer showed that 99% of the differences were only 2 shades off, so it's safe to rotate your originals without worrying about losing tons of quality. There's almost no degradation.