Digital BW, The Print

With regards to enlargements of digitally captured images you need to take
into account noise as well as the megapixel rating.  It is critical to shoot
in a "noiseless" manner...either Tiff or RAW (smaller file size).  I'm not
sure whether the canon cameras have a raw mode...but RAW mode captured
images on my D1, coupled with geniune fractals and some careful sharpening
yield successful BW enlargements twice the size of images captured in jpeg
1:4 mode on the same camera.

Robert

On 9/10/01 6:14 PM, "Jerry Olson" <jerryolson@...> wrote:

> 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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