Digital BW, The Print

Shaun, I've seen that price at about half a dozen places in the current
issue of Shutterbug. Some places are $1600.

I had the Olympus E10, a 4.3 megapixel camera. It was phenomenal for
8x10 or smaller prints. Sharper than a scanned provia at 4000 DPI up to
8x10 inches.  At 12x18 inches the quality was not acceptable for black
and white landscapes.

I believe the D30 was supposed to be just a hair better than the E10 due
to a different type of pixel. It would really need to be a full 6 pixels
to go to a 12x18 print, I believe. That would be 18 megabytes, and at
the finest quality setting, and a little sharpening, I think that would
work.  If the new camera is at least 6 megapixels, I will probably sell
off my other cameras and just use that from now on. The others are great
cameras, but if I can get a REALLY sharp 12x18, I'll be satisfied.  I
have 8 canon lenses, so will be well equipped for the camera.

On the Olympus, if you upsized the 10.7 megabyte image in photoshop to
25 megabytes, the files were still pretty good. In fact for close up
pictures, it was extremely sharp, and the large prints were beautiful.
But a landscape just couldn't quite make it, as there just isn't enough
detail in that small area to get sharpness at infinity. At the wide
angle position, there was too much distortion, also, and it didn't have
interchangeable lenses, which I just gotta have, so I sold the camera
and await the new Canon.

Yes, if you have a nice shot, by all means lets see it in your print exchange.

I sent my 34 prints to you today. The couple extra ones you can have for
yourself. The print is entitled "Distant Shores".  I'm attaching it now
so you can see it, and put it up on your site with the others.

Jerry 

http://www.westernechoes.com

> Have you seen output from a D30 in order to make the quality
> evaluation? If not I'll be happy to use a D30 shot as my offering in
> the Print Exchange we're both involved with right now.

I've seen about half a dozen 8x10 prints, that were certainly of the
quality I want, but I don't know how good they would be at a larger size.

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