Actually, Frantisek, I never buy small prints. I only have prints made on a lab from my own files/scans in 20X30 cm (8x12") and frame them in 30x40 cm (12x16") paspartouts for exibitions or competitions. Occationally lager ones - i.e. printed on a HP800 A0 plotter (panoramas). This is perhaps 1 frame pr. 1000 shots. 10% of my images are used for the computer (slideshows on a CD, screensavers or Autocad, MicroStation or Illustator aplications) or for the intenet or for printing in books, leaflets, planning publications etc.
I stopped filling shoeboxes or photo albums with 4x6 prints the day I got my first home computer. The remaing 89,99 % of my shots are simply trashed. In Denmark 70% of the people have access to a computer/internet connection from their home. The rest probably from work, the library or an internet cafe. Noone want prints anymore. Jens Bladt mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://hjem.get2net.dk/bladt -----Oprindelig meddelelse----- Fra: Frantisek [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sendt: 4. november 2004 18:06 Til: Jens Bladt Emne: Re: USAF target and resolution tests JB> Thanks for the link, Rob. My concern is, that he/she measure exaosed and JB> developed FILM, not prints, that can never really reproduce what's recorded. JB> In real life I believe there's no big difference, resolutionwise between JB> prints or scans from a 6 MP digital camera and files/prints made freom 35mm JB> negs. My test show this very clearly. If there were, I'm sure I would use my JB> filmcameras more :-). Jens, perhaps you should do better prints then ;-) Not to be nitpicking (?) but I just wanted to remind the listers that they should not compare film prints via a Frontier or Noritsu or Agfa DLab machine with prints on same machine from digital. Scanning film rarely does it justice, especially on these machines which lack tonality, sharpness and accentuate grain. I am not comparing DSLR vs FILM, both have their merits and both offer high quality in different aspects of image. Just that degrading film to a Noritsu or Frontier print is not fair ;-) Good light! fra
