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Subject: [OM] Re: OT Portraits with 2 mp [was Musings on Megapixels III]
From: Chuck Norcutt <chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 05 Dec 2006 16:44:07 -0500
Back in love again, eh?  A month or two ago I thought you wouldn't have 
given a plugged nickel for it.  Low resolution images were bad for 
business, etc., etc.  What happened  :-)

Chuck Norcutt

AG Schnozz wrote:

> ...Moose wrote stuff about pixel counts and portraits...
> 
> I'm finding it rather interesting how cropping just isn't an
> issue with me.  With the E-1, I'm shooting to fill the frame and
> not really leaving anything on the table. It not only
> streamlines my post-processing, but it also maximizes what few
> pixels I have.
> 
> Now, with landscapes, you crop for the composition, but that's a
> different animal altogether.
> 
> End result for MOST print sizes is that my E-1 is pretty well
> matching the results I got from medium-format.  Granted, we're
> talking portraiture here, but the key with portraiture isn't
> necessarily inner-detail, but edge-detail.  If you've preserved
> the edges, the lack of inside details are overlooked--if not
> welcomed.
> 
> I'll still take more megapixels, but not at the expense of the
> coloring and nuance that the Olympus gives me.  I've had several
> Nikon and Canon portraiture people look at my images and wonder
> what PP I did to them to get the colors like that while
> maintaining the skin tones.
> 
> IQ is more than MP.
> 
> AG
> 
> 
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