But I have seen photos taking with Nikkor 105/2.8 micro lens about 50x70cm made using enlarger and wonder if you could receive such format of the same quality based on your even Canon 1Ds. In Cracow there is an exebition of photos of French who used Canon 1n with L lenses and shot Velvia and then made photos in size higher than 2x2 meters and of course there is some unsharpness but when you come close. Cheers Alek ----- Original Message ----- From: "Herb Chong" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, July 24, 2003 10:39 PM Subject: Re: Tough times in Rochester
> at 10 times as long to get a comparable quality image from film, even after i receive the slides back from processing, it costs me a lot of time (equals money) to scan my slides. prints of digital images from a digital camera up to 11x14 size are higher quality, more consistent, and require far less time on my part. based on my experience, 10-12 megapixels consistently outperforms 35mm Provia 100F in sharpness and resolution using top quality lenses up to at least 11x14 size and probably up to 16x20 size. > > i work every day with 4000 dpi scans of my slides and 5-10 megapixel images from a supposedly much cheaper set of optics. i see the price i pay for using film every day in the quality of images and film's unwanted artifacts. in less than 5 years, semi-pro digital SLRs will comfortably exceed the resolution, color accuracy, and dynamic range of slide film at identical sensor sizes. so far as those who own a Canon 1Ds are concerned, it has already happened. it takes some years of experience to set up an efficient digital workflow to manage a couple of hundred new images a week. i'm ready now. those who aren't and have to switch because they have no choice will have to make up that time and won't be able to meet my standards of quality and timeliness no matter how good their film workflow was. > > Herb.... > ----- Original Message ----- > From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Thursday, July 24, 2003 16:12 > Subject: Re: Tough times in Rochester > > > > Yet they will still (Stock Photo Companies that is.. Stock Photographers > > can use whatever they want to use) accept scans from film. As such, wait > > until the Stock Photography Companies say "You MUST use a digital SLR > > camera", and in the meantime all the bugs will be worked out and the price > > will drop. > > > > Dave > > > >
