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This picture shows a far away shot of a reservoir taken using the DigiCam ES3310 digital camera. if you take a close look at the region in the shadows marked by the red rectangle in the image above, you will find that the region is all black. Thus, there is a loss of details in the area under shadows for this picture. I knew that that region was not so dark when I was taking the picture. Another region that shows a loss of contrast is marked by the black rectangle in the above image. This time, it is due to the bright sunlight in that region. Thus it seems that in this picture, the ES3310 was not able to handle the details in both dark and bright regions at the same time.

This picture was taken using an aperture size of f3, shuttle speed of 1/1024 sec, and ISO rating of 100. Another picture, taken under the same lighting conditions and using the Nikon Coolpix 5700, looks better in terms of exposure and it is shown below.

Same Picture taken using Nikon Coolpix 5700
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This picture taken using Nikon 5700 has better contrast as well as fresher colors compared to the one above by ES3310. The settings used are aperture size of f7.1, exposure time of 1/310 sec, and ISO rating of 100. However, the details of the trees in the shadows on the left side of this picture are still not brought out properly. This is probably because the aperture size setting is quite small when taking this picture.