Digital BW, The Print

Claude,

Yes, your experience and mine with the ETTL-II is consistent.  
Thanks for the info on the R800.  Looks like I'll just stick with 
the 400 for my B&W.  Agree that it is an incredible printer 
overall.  I suspect we'll see the R800 technology and inksets in 
larger formats from Epson soon.

Thanks,

Tony Bonanno

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, claudej1@a... 
wrote:
> Although I also have Nikon glass, as a "Canon guy" going back to 
the Kodak 
> 520/Canon 2000 ($15,000 for 2 megapixels, how soon we forget), I 
have been 
> through the evolution of TTL flash.
> 
> As a general practitioner, Weddings are a small part of my 
repertoire. I 
> currently have the 1D Mark II and the 20d, upgraded to these as 
they became 
> chronologically available simply because of ETTL-2. It will NOT 
blow out the whites 
> like the 10d or 1d did, which is death in digital capture. I can 
easily fix a 
> shot that's up to 2 stops under.
> 
> I actually use those cameras at the Medium jepeg fine setting, 
which is a 4 
> Megapixel file. Anything more than this on a Wedding is overkill 
for an 8x10 or 
> smaller print and this file will easily print a 16x24 on a 7600.
> 
> So you can look at a 1Ds mark 2 as having a 4x oversampling 
characteristic in 
> capture. Downshifting in the camera will increase the pixel 
quality because 
> is samples 4 native pixels ahead of color interpolation and 
downsampling. It 
> wil also have a better selective focus characteristic, for obvious 
reasons.
> 
> On the issue of the R800, that unit is a fantastic color printer 
and does an 
> "acceptable" job on B&W, but you CANNOT use it in BO mode. I own 
lots of Epson 
> and have had every major unit since the original Stylus in 1994, 
and this is 
> the first one that does this.
> 
> I have yet to see a better color output than the R800 from any 
printer 
> including the 4000, which does a fantastic job on BO, posted a few 
days 
> ago.........no comments or replies.
> 
> Claude Jodoin
> Tech. Editor, Rangefinder
> 
> 
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