Here is a 100% crop from a shot of Jupiter that shows the bands. I did some Photoshopping to enhance the bands, but they are definitely visible. The lens specs are 114mm diameter (4.5 inches), 450mm focal length, F/4. You get roughly 30x magnification plus 3x more with the camera so that's roughly equivalent to a 3000mm, F/4 lens.
Here's another terrible shot that's got much stronger exposure so you can see three of the moons (I don't know what happened to the fourth one--I saw it last night.) Part of the problem here is shaking in the Telescope--it vibrates for a while after I let go--I only used the 2 second timer on the camera--next time I'll use the 10 second timer.
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I don't know if you are still evaluating the F30, but I find there is a problem when using MACRO and the flash together; you basically get an obvious shadow down the bottom right hand corner of the photo - the shadow gets bigger the closer you get to the subject - I would say this is a very bad thing - what do you think?
I've seen that although only rarely as I hardly ever use the flash that close. I don't think it's that bad of a thing. It's an unavoidable consequence of a built-in flash and a large extending lens which will cast a shadow on part of the scene when you get extremely close.
Any compact camera with a long extending lens (either due to large zoom range or large sensor) and close macro capability will have this problem with a built-in, non-popup flash. Eg., I'm sure the Canon SD900 would have the same problem.
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