You can make a pretty nice 11 X 14 with a 3.25MP camera. I used a Canon D30 for a long weekend and was pleasantly surprised by the 8 X 10 and 11 X 14 prints that I could make using it. This was setting it at the lowest sharpness, lowest contrast, and lowest color saturation settings and then letting PhotoShop take care of the sharpening, if needed. I didn't run into the need to adjust colors or contrast at all, though that's a matter of taste, anyway. I hope Pentax releases at least a 4MP SLR body, because I can make prints larger than 11 X 14 with my printer, but a $1200, 3.25MP body would probably be enough to get me to buy it, if I could use all of my Pentax lenses with it. Especially if it worked as well, or better than the D30. The only thing that would make me hesitate would be the thought that, shortly after a 3.25MP body is released, a 4 or 5MP body might quickly follow.
Len --- -----Original Message----- From: John Glover [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, January 30, 2002 9:27 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: New Pro Fuji I own a Fuji 6900z, which uses the second generation Super CCD. The 6900z had a standard 3.1Mp CCD and give an interpolated image of just a bit over 6 Mp. However, I tend not to shoot in the 6Mp mode as for most of my shots, there is no real advantage in quality that I can see. I rarely make anything beyond an 8x10, so the 3Mp resolution is generally enough. The advantage I see to using the 6Mp mode comes in when you need to crop and enlarge a photo in Photoshop. I use Genuine Fractals and I've found the 6 Mp mode give GF plenty of data to work with when setting up a cropped and enlarged shot. Beyond that, there is not much advantage to 6Mp...unless you want to brag about your megapixels!! Actually, most reviewers equate the resolution in the 6Mp mode to be equivalent to about 4 to 4.5 Mp in quality....so you guessttimataion of 8 Mp effective resolution is probably about on the mark. John PS -- One really nice thing I've found with Fuji's Super CCD is the colors are pretty darned good.....most photos need very little color correction work and many times are very good straight out of the camera. That's nice if you want to print off a couple of quick shots from your media card at the local digital kiosk. - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org .
