Digital BW, The Print

Austin,

With all due respect, a number of respected photo publications have stated publicly that the resolution of a digital capture chip must reach 16 megapixels before it reaches the ability of a fine grained film.  I am not a video engineer and quite honestly don't have enough information to intelligently debate the issue.  I can not say whether you are right or wrong, but would like to read more on the subject at some pint in the future.

100 Megapixels sounds bit extreme, but then again I don't know enough to say either way.

Thanks for the info.

Mike 
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Austin Franklin 
  To: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com 
  Sent: Thursday, January 17, 2002 6:13 PM
  Subject: RE: [Digital BW] Shooting Digitally



  Hi Mike,

  > I think tha visually you are seeing an image that looks like
  > film, but in reality the camera would need to approach 16
  > megapixels to resolve the finest films today.

  By my calculations, it's just under 100M pixels, but certainly much less
  will give you exceptional results, as seen by the very low res digital
  cameras of today, like the D-30/D1 etc.  Remember, that one shot digital
  cameras have 25% red, 25% blue and 50% green sensors...so the color
  information is interpolated...so because a sensor is 16M elements, doesn't
  mean you get 16M PIXELS of information...without making some of it up ;-)

  Austin


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