On 3 Jun 2002 at 5:52, Mishka wrote: > Rob, > Sorry to say, but purely from the technical, image quality, side, an > Olympus Stylus Epic p&s gives as good or better pictures, when scanned > at this resolution. Even with 400 film. Better tones. Better latitude. > This just shows how far digital has yet to go... > > Loved the picture though!
Hi Mishka, I agree film will give better results however the digital isn't that bad for most applications. I don't agree regarding the better tones and latitude comments however, if you check the EXIF data embedded in the image you will see that the image was shot at 16:17 and sunset in Sydney was 16:53 today, the colour temperature was set at 5500deg so the colour is actually quite accurate. Colour accuracy and repeatability is one of the primary advantages of digital as far as my experience indicates (over 3500 filed images since late Nov 2001). I have had very good success in this area, far better in fact than with any film based colour photographic process. Granted there were blowouts in the highlights of the image however they were generated by specular (or white gloss) surfaces reflecting the full afternoon sun. Even so there is still good shadow detail. I have my camera set to low contrast so that I have a little latitude available for post image capture editing. I must admit viewing Provia 100 slides with my Pentax 5.5 loupe shot with my my 67 are a little better in quality but these and my digital shots are rarely used to capture similar scenes/objects or are they destined for the same display media/option either so the point is mute. :-) Cheers, Rob Studdert HURSTVILLE AUSTRALIA Tel +61-2-9554-4110 UTC(GMT) +10 Hours [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://members.ozemail.com.au/~distudio/publications.html - 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 .
