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Re: [Digital BW] analog/digital Megapixels

2006-05-01 by john dean

I know. I just had a client leave here 10 minutes ago. She said, "but
you know, I like noise". There you go. Its a whole different ball
game. Sometimes digital capture is really interesting, and sometimes
it is a total nightmare and you never know from one day to the next
which it will be.

john




--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Tyler Boley"
<tyler@...> wrote:
>
> --- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, CDTobie@ wrote:
> >
> > ...Higher image 
> > resolution, be it in film or digital, sounds like a better idea to me!
> 
> Exactly!
> 
> Regarding the rest, and the original questions, I guess my point is
> that there are no straightforward answers. The more I do this stuff
> the more I realize any solution depends on a number of factors and one
> approach may suit only a given set of problems.
> If the discussion were severely limited to say, 8x10 prints, or maybe
> portraiture only, or both, things get more straightforward very quickly.
> I made a print here for an excellent photographer, very graphic and
> abstract, motion blur, nighttime, shot from a train window with a very
> small digital point a shoot... she had me make a 30x40. 
> It's beautful.
> Tyler
>

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