Digital BW, The Print

Yeah...its a tough call between these two...more resolution (5 vs. 4), wider
angle lens (28mm vs. 34mm) and higher max shutter speed (1/4000 vs. 1/1000)
on the Nikon side, and 10bit Raw format, faster lens (f2 vs. f2.8) and
cheaper on the Canon side.  Honestly, I can't image that 10bit RAW is that
big an advantage over 8bit TIFF in image quality...but the smaller file size
probably helps for those not running 1gB microdrives.

I recently started looking for a prosumer smaller camera that was more
portable than my D1x and decided there wasn't anything out there to
buy...everybody seemed to have some fatal flaw.  I really liked the specs of
the new Leica Digilux 1...but then the SD card issue killed it. I wonder
what Coolpix 3 is?  It is due to be announced on Wednesday.

Its ironic...I've switched to digital for much of my "serious" work...but
when it comes to having a camera always with me...I'm still thinking about
shooting film.

Robert


(28On 5/27/02 8:26 AM, "jimhayes361" <jimhayes@...> wrote:

> --- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@y..., "tomoc" <TomOC@s...> wrote:
>> Hi all-
>> 
>> I thought Austin was going to address this in the last 16/8 thread,
>> but it died <g>.
>> 
>> Do you think there is any advantage gained from converting an 8 bit
>> image (usually a .jpg from a Nikon 5000) to 16 bit before doing any
>> adjustments in PS?.
>> 
> 
> I'm only going to comment on the digital camera part. Without starting
> a Nikon/Canon war, if you have a Canon G2 instead of the Nikon 5000,
> it passes 10 bits to photoshop in "16 bit mode", allowing you to edit
> images easily. The G2 is in the same price range and feature set as
> the Nikon 5000, with the Nikon at 5 megapixels vs 4 for the Canon,
> which I don't feel makes a lot of difference, but the Canon has a
> faster lens at f2 vs f2.8, which I feel does make a quality
> difference.
> 
> In this light, there is no need to worry about not having headroom to
> work the curves.
> 
> Also when storing a full RAW image, Canon only uses about 3.5 mb on
> the CF card- it stores the color info encoded in some way, so that
> software is used to process the full color image once back home on
> your computer.
> 
> 
> Jim H.