Digital BW, The Print

Jerry-

Austin may (probably is) right, but it may not matter much of the 
time (especially on closeups with a lot of evenly graduated areas).

I have a Nikon D1 and D1x. They are each able to produce equally 
sharp images if the subject is well lit. The biggest advantage to the 
D1x (aside from better color balance and some more user friendly 
features) is that there is more detail on the CCD and in weakly lit 
scenes there is definitely more to work with in the shadow areas.

I think the interpolation (yes, the lack of detail, Austin), produces 
very adequate images in many situations. The photo may "look" just as 
good or better than an image with "more detail" but you can still 
make the argument that detail is lacking. 

Something of an oblique proof of this would be the file sizes of 
various .jpg images...ones with a lot of fine detail are 
significantly larger than ones with lots of even areas and both are 
taken with the same camera... Extend the limited .jpg analogy to the 
CCD algorithms and you can imagine how the hardware runs out of 
headroom to resolve detail at some point. In most scenes I believe 
that this DOES NOT MEAN YOU PRODUCE AN INFERIOR PHOTO...and that's 
where the arguing starts for me <g>.

Tom O'Connell

TomOC@...
www.thomasoconnell.com



--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@y..., Jerry Olson 
<jerryolson@r...> wrote:
> Richard, I can send you a large JPEG, which still looks great on the
> monitor. I don't know how to post an image somewhere. If you want, I
> could send it over the supper hour, as I suppose it will take 
awhile to
> download. 
> 
> Jerry
> 
> Austin Always claims that sharpness isn't the issue, detail is. But 
all
> technicalites  aside, the closeups from the D30 look great, if you 
are
> using sharp lenses. I used the 100mm and the 50mm Canon macros for 
the
> pictures I'm always talking about.