Digital BW, The Print

On Aug 23, 2005, at 9:57 AM, claudej1@... wrote:

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> Nikon, with it's Sony-made, 5.3 Micron well site pitch cannot possibly
> compete with that on the signal to noise front. It's just plain  
> physics and
> material properties. I have seen ISO 800 files from the D2X (I also  
> used to own  the
> D1, D1x, and D1H for a brief time). They are MUCH noisier than the  
> Canon 1D
> MkII, the 20d or the Digital Rebel.

Maybe this is what I saw a couple of years ago when I was considering  
the Digital Rebel and the Sony 8 MP camera (I can't remember the  
model now), both of which were pretty new at the time.  The 8 MP were  
compelling at the time, but when I saw comparisons of images of both  
cameras on Steve's Digicam site, I thought the noise of the Sony was  
unacceptable.  And I could find only a couple of favorable reviews,  
one of which said oh, you'll never see the noise in a real print.   
Maybe.  I wasn't convinced, though.

James