Digital BW, The Print

> Austin, a post from Claude Jodin:
> 

Er, yeah, Jerry?  Did you think I somehow didn't get it?

;-)

Austin, a post from Claude Jodin:


The Foveon X3 is a little better than the D60 and only slightly better
than 
the S2 in the sharpness department. It will also interpolate to a 14 
Megapixel file from it's RAW processing software, so it gives the new
Canon 
11 MP a run for it's money. More importantly, what it doesn't have is
moire 
patterns in my backlit veil and "killer pillow'" test which makes all
single 
shot digital cameras tested here in the last 5 years (you name it) puke.
Only 
the Sigma/X3, the original Foveon 3-chip prism camera, and the Kodak Pro
Back 
with the Anti Aliasing filter have escapted the killer pillow intact.

Where the Foveon creations shine is when you make 40x50 canvases on a
Big 
Epson. Everyone else falls apart at 30x40.

Claude Jodoin

Jerry, 
Who may I ask is Claude Jodoin ?

Before you decide to spend hard earned bucks on the Foveon X3, here's 
something you might want to know about the Sigma D9, the only camera 
available now with the Foveon chip, AFAIK.

http://www.dpreview.com/reviews/sigmasd9/page24.asp

Cheers,
Andre


--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, Jerry Olson 
<jerryolson@r...> wrote:
> 
> Austin, a post from Claude Jodin:
> 
> 
> The Foveon X3 is a little better than the D60 and only slightly 
better
> than 
> the S2 in the sharpness department. It will also interpolate to a 
14 
> Megapixel file from it's RAW processing software, so it gives the 
new
> Canon 
> 11 MP a run for it's money. More importantly, what it doesn't have 
is
> moire 
> patterns in my backlit veil and "killer pillow'" test which makes 
all
> single 
> shot digital cameras tested here in the last 5 years (you name it) 
puke.
> Only 
> the Sigma/X3, the original Foveon 3-chip prism camera, and the 
Kodak Pro
> Back 
> with the Anti Aliasing filter have escapted the killer pillow 
intact.
> 
> Where the Foveon creations shine is when you make 40x50 canvases on 
a

> Big 
> Epson. Everyone else falls apart at 30x40.
> 
> Claude Jodoin

> Who may I ask is Claude Jodoin ?

Here is what a web search claims:

"Claude Jodoin
Claude Jodoin, Cr. Photog.,CPP, has been a photographer for 23 years. He is
Technical Editor for PPA's Professional Photographer Magazine, 7 years
running, and advisor for new Photography Certification Exams. He has an
extensive technical background in Industrial/Corporate Photography using all
film formats from 35mm to 8x10 to Digital He has written numerous articles
for PPA affiliates on Digital Imaging, Light theory, Metering, Special
Effects, indoor/outdoor Portraiture, and applied sensitometry in Color and
Black and White (Zone system). He has taught various workshops in the US and
Canada and enjoys doing Industrial, Commercial, Portrait, and Wedding work
for select clients. He has been involved in Digital Imaging since 1986,
pioneering the use of high-resolution laser photoplotters in electronics
imaging. In 1996, he bought his first digital camera and began an event
photography business, replacing all Polaroid venues. He used film for the
last time in Oct, 1999. All of his Wedding, Portrait, and corporate images
have been done digitally since. He opened a new all-digital Studio in 2000.
He was recently featured in Dean Collins US Photoshop tour on Digital Color
management and Workflow."

This is not mean to be insulting at all, just a statement of fact.  I have
no comment on whether that means he knows what he's talking about with
respect to the subject at hand or not, that will come out with further
discussion, not from what I see on his bio.

Austin