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Here is a picture of a running track taken in the afternoon using the Olympus D580 digital camera. The picture looks great and the colors of the sky and the running track looks fresh and vibrant. Howvever, one problem with the Olympus D580 when taking this picture was that the details of the metal gratings in the in the foreground were not captured well. This is shown by region of the green rectangle above. The metal stripes of the grating cannot be distinguished individually and as a result, the grating looks like a flat piece of metal sheet instead. The two pictures below compares it with a closer shot of the metal grating. This closer view shows that the metal grating does have individual metal stripes and is not a flat metal sheet, as depicted in the orginal image.

View of Metal Grating in Picture		Closer View of Metal Grating

Take a look of the region marked by the blue rectangle in the image above. You will find that you are unable to discern the indivdual lines of the running track anymore when they start coming very close together. In fact, the lines will appear as a patch of blur when they come very close together, as shown by the picture below. Most digital cameras are not able capture areas where there are very fine lines close together properly, although our eyes are able to do it better.

Region of Blue Rectangle

If you look at the row of palm trees at the centre of the picture, you will find that most parts of the tree leaves that are under shadow appear totally black. But this is not so to our eyes and we are still able to make out some details of the leaves that are in the shadows. Thus, this is another situation where there is a loss of details in areas under dim light when taking pictures using this camera. I have marked out the parts of the trees where there is loss of details with red circles in the picture above. You can also see a close up of the region of the red circles in the image below.

Region of Red Circles