Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/12/15
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Hi All, On Saturday, December 14, 2002, at 03:33 PM, Emanuel Lowi wrote: > A major French photo mag has just tested the new Canon 11megapixel job > and they're > reporting results as good as with a Hasselblad w/50mm lens and lower > speed film -- > definitely superior to 24 x 36 film. > > What do our LUG experts say about this? Any cool new technology - and digital photography is cool - tends to generate hyperbole. Remember Sony's claim for CDs back in 1983? "Perfect sound forever." Of course... Having said that, I'm willing to believe the 1Ds' images easily beat all but the absolute best 35mm scans in most respects. The apparent sharpness increase due to the lack of grain aliasing in digital images has been commented on here and I'm sure plays a part in the French observations. White balance and overall color fidelity is often superior to film in good digital cameras, or at least achieved with greater ease than scanned film. I'm assuming one is using a digital workflow with the above, as mine has pretty much been since Photoshop 2.0. Negative film can still capture a wider range of light than any non-scanning digital sensor I've seen or read about thus far. I'd buy a 1Ds in a heartbeat if it weren't so overpriced... Will von Dauster - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html