One of the things I found out in Dahab was some of the capabilities of the DSLR lenses.
These are capable of much greater resolution than my compacts, and – together with the improved autofocus -have meant that I can “crop” to a much greater extent.
This means I can take photos from further away.

I’ve loaded some of these in the Dahab album already, but just to highlight what I mean…
(you can click on the thumbnail images to view a larger size).

The centre top of this first image crops to the second :

It was really good for getting this frisky juvenile wrasse …

This works with the 11-22mm zoom as well. I was amazed with the resolution at this distance :

It’s probably also worth comparing a photo I took on the E900 back in July :

With one I took with the E-410 in November (this is cropped a bit) :

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