Digital BW, The Print

Thanks Harvey. I didn't know you had to use a memory stick for that
camera. That lets it out for me, I don't want yet another format to have
hassles with. I agree with all you say. Closeups are as good as velvia
film with my D-30. But landscapes, especially at infinity just don't
make it. (For 13x19 images). I think it would probably take an 8
megapixel camera to do justice to infinity landscapes. The batteries in
the D-30 seem to last a long time, and of course I have spare always
with me. 

Jerry

SKID Photography wrote:
> 
> Ok, I'll jump in here.
> 
> First, I vote for the Sonys.  We have one of the smaller ones, and if we could
> afford it, we'd get one of the 'top of the line' models.  Their drawback is
> needing to use Sony's relatively small and expensive 'Memorysticks', and the
> biggest plus is their battery system.  At least 3 straight hours of shooting
> with the LCD screen active.  I don't think any other camera brand can claim
> that.
> 
> That said, the subject of megapixel size of *all* these capture devices is a big
> lie, that all the manufacturers seem to get away with.  They claim a pixel count
> for *each* sensor.  When in reality, it takes an R, G, & B component to make up
> each pixel.  What this means is that there is a phenomenally large amount of
> interpolation going on in all of these cameras.  And these capture chips use an
> R-G-G-B, not just RGB.
> 
> That in turn, explains why these digital cameras (actually filmless cameras, as
> the 'captures' are analog, and then 'written' digitally after the fact) are good
> at certain types of scenes and terrible at others.
> 
> The digital cameras are good when there are areas of broad tone (where the
> algorithms can interpolate the spaces 'between' the actual captured information
> without too much error), and are terrible when there is a lot of fine detail
> (like the information between the branches in a forest in the winter).  They
> *are* good at hard edges (like branches), but are not good at interpolating the
> color information between the branches.
> 
> Harvey Ferdschneider
> partner, SKID Photography, NYC
>