Digital BW, The Print

Note that the S2 does not actually produce 12 mp; it produces 6 mp, which it
interpolates to 12 mp in order to justify the marketing hype.  So you can
downsample to 6 mp without any loss of quality, since that's what the image
originally was to start with.  And 6 mp is about all you need for full-frame
images at normal viewing distances.

----- Original Message -----
From: "James Klebau" <jklebau@...>
To: <DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Wednesday, July 31, 2002 01:17
Subject: Re: [Digital BW] Storage of digital images


>
> > Jerry,
> >
> > I'm considering the new Fuji S2 for a move into digicams. I know most of
> > the advantages and disadvantages versus film, but something no-one seems
> > to mention is storage of the image files. If you're going to get the max
> > out of the camera, you're going to save a 12 million pixel image in raw
> > format or largest tiff, at about 50 MB per image. On my last holiday I
> > took about 13/14 films (36 each) so that would be getting on for 500
> > images at 50MB per image = 25GB!! So I would have to buy a portable
> > computer or hard-drive to store them on while I'm away, and then instead
> > of putting them all in my filing cabinet until I want to scan an image,
>
> > How are you and others coping with this storage problem that is only
> > going to get worse as camera resolutions increase, unless better
> > lossless compression systems appear?
> >
> > Bob Frost.
> >
>
> If I can add a thought:
>
> If I shot 500 images on a holiday, I would probably cull out most of them,
> and would be very pleased if I had more than a dozen that should be stored
> at hi res. And maybe there might be another couple dozen of
personal/family
> images that I would keep, and those might be 18 megs or less each.
>
> It's so much easier to edit out digital images than film images. This is
> something that doesn't seem to get much consideration when people are
> comparing digital with film.
>
> 2 cents.
>
> Jim
>
>
>
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