Digital BW, The Print

> I own a  Cannon D-30 and have shot with the 1D. There are a couple of
> things that make the D-30 and also the D-60 and 1D stand out from the
> rest. The first is the image quality you start with. I am a editorial
> photographer, so I have the chance to compare images shot under the same
> condition with different cameras. At this point I will chose the Cannon
> every time. The other advantage with the Cannon cameras is the ability to
> shoot in the raw mode. Once developed you end up with a 17.8 mb, 16 bit,
> tiff file. If you will learn to work up your photo as much as posible in
> 16 bit before you convert to 8 bit and then use Genuine Fractals to
> interpolate the file size up,

Steven - I hate to be the one to burst your bubble but Canon is NOT the only digtial camera 
with the ability to shoot and allow manipulation of RAW files.

I won't even address your comment that you can pick out a digital Canon photo from a 
batch of all the rest. I'd really like to put that one to a fair and impartial blind test.  I have shot 
with both the Canon and the D1X. I can not tell the difference in a blind test. I challenge 
anyone else to do so either. Besides, making such sweeping comments about the D30, 
D60, 1D and D1X is comparing apples to oranges. They are not all even in the same class. 
To compare a $2,000 body to a $5,000 and say it yields better images 100% of the time?  I 
can appreciate your brand name loyalty but such broad stroked comments are simply not to 
be taken as gospel.

I have also done thorough side by side tests with Genuine Fractals and Photoshop 6 prints. 
(small sections greatly enlarged and printed on the same printers - both inkjet and wet 
prints) I have not been able to tell the difference there either.  IMHO, PS6 does just as good 
of a job as GF and does it a whole bunch FASTER!

Greg