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Here is a picture of a tree with pink flowers taken using the Olympus D580. A similarly framed picture was also taken using the DigiCam ES3310 and it can be found here. The tree is actually quite far away, and therefore optical zoom is used to get a closer shot of the tree in the centre. Even with zoom, the Olympus D580 is able to capture the fine details clearly and maintain good contrast in the picture. This is evident in this picture because you can see the details of the leaves and flowers of the tree very clearly. Also, when compared to another camera like the DigiCam ES3310, the Olympus D580 appears to perform better. This can be seen in the comparison of the two pictures below. The one taken using Olympus D580 has sharp and fine details near the leaves of the tree while in the case of the ES3310, the leaves appear blurred and mixed with the color of the pink flowers.

Using Olympus D580		Using DigiCam ES3310

The region marked by the red rectangle in the image above appears to be very noisy. It seems that the Olympus D580 has a tendency to introduce noise in parts of the image where there is shadow or where the light is dim. This could be because the camera is not able to handle the dynamic range of the image well.

Region of Red Rectangle