Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/11/18
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]w On 18/11/2004, at 4:00 PM, Richard wrote: > It depends on who you ask. All I know is that for me personally, I > look at the 13x19 prints from my friend's 1Ds (11Mp) and my 11x14 > prints using M lens and scanned at using the Nikon 4000 that they both > look darn good. One is neither better than the other, they do look > different. 1Ds is entirely grainless but then again Provia, even at > 400F is fairly grain free too. > > Of course there are some people of the opinions that the 1Ds and the > new 1Ds MkII is VASTLY better than 35mm, rivalling medium format. At > least Michael Reichmann of Luminious Landscape is quite reasonable > about discussions, but there are others who use Michael and other > websites as proofs that how much better 11Mp is. e.g. > http://www.leica-camera.com/discus_e/messages/2/95118.html?1100749479 > > Look under Pascal... He trashed me in another post because I told him > my eyes tell me that my friends and my prints are different but > neither one is "better." He said I was condescending and how dare I > disagree with the experts :-) > > At 07:59 PM 11/17/2004, Doug Herr wrote: > >> on 11/17/04 5:51 PM, Rick Dykstra at rdcb37@dodo.com.au wrote: >> >> > what's the LUGs view on how 10.5 Mpix >> > compares with good film? I enlarge from film to 20x30in, via a >> 6144 x >> > 4096 scan. The digi back's sensor is way less pixels than this, by >> my >> > calculations, good for around 8 x 12 at the same resolution. Not >> bad, >> > but not as good as film. >> > >> >> There isn't a direct correlation between pixels from scanned film and >> native >> pixels. The scanned photo needs to have quite a few more pixels to >> make up >> for the losses inherent in making the scan. > > // richard (This email is for mailing lists. To reach me directly, > please use richard at imagecraft.com) > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >