Date: Thu, 04 Dec 2003 20:32:15 -0500
From: Gregg Iverson <golftooter@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [OM] Cheap Zooms
One of the things I like about the digital photos I have seen is that they
seem to have that special look that jumps right out at you. Slides have
that look to, but prints usually don't. I don't know what it is that
creates the look, but it is very clear to me when I see it.
gregg
Exactly my "hyperbull" point I made the other day. If I were to show
you side by side prints taken with my D60 or 1D from my little Epson
820 or from an Epson 2200, compared to the same photo taken with 35
mm print film, or made from a slide as an Ilfochrome, the digital
print would look better. I'm not just blowing smoke here. They *do*
look better. It's not just me that says this, Mike Veglia made the
same exact point earlier this week and someone else posted last
weekend that they saw an 11X14 print shot from a 5 megapixel
wonderbrick with no sharpening or postprocessing and printed from an
Epson 2200 that was so sharp and detailed it made him want to throw
his OM gear in the trash and give up photography. I've got shots
printed on my Epson 820 that have so much depth, sharpness and
clarity that they give the impression of slide film; shots were you
can see the pinholes in the leathers of a motorcycle racer who is
going 85 mph in the shot. Today I was reading an article in Digital
Photo Pro about Jody Dole, a long-time NY pro who was been using
digital since 1990, and still uses both media (film and digital) as
the needs arise. He recently shot a job both digitally and with film,
and handed both to his client in a "blind taste test"...the client
chose digital. "The quality I can get out of the Nikon D1X is, in
most cases, better than film. So, there's very little reason for me
to use 35 mm film. If I'm going to film, I'm going to medium format
film." Moreover, you would be surprised how large you can make a
print these days and still have the print look crisp and sharp from a
camera with a 4 megapixel camera. Anyone who doubts that, go down to
Pictopia in Emeryville, CA and see what they produce on a daily
basis. I know many of you are still skeptical about these claims, but
if you were to work with these cameras as much as Mike and I have,
you would be a believer, but you would still be amazed at the quality.
-Stephen.
>That is what makes the decision to go to digital so difficult for me, as I
am not only changing the method of capture, but would be switching from
>slides to computer screen/prints pics.
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2001 CBR600F4i - Fantastic!
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