See below Chip Louie wrote: > --------------------------------------------------- > David, > > A 6MP camera will deliver a sharper image. I can prove that with the files > from a Fuji Finepix S1. > Now with a 12MP Fuji it will be even better. Please note most of your > advertising photography has > been digital for several years because you get a better image with digital > than with film. > Plus you have programs like Genuine Fractals which can yield better > enlargements from smaller files. > I have seen 30x40 prints from a 6MP camera that were just > stunning. Have not > seen that from a 35mm negative. > > Peter K >
Hi Peter, This is how old wives tales get started! A 6MP camera generated file may give the impression of more apparent sharpness but does not contain the detail found on film. A good 35mm drum scan is clearly a superior image to start with and after a little image manipulation there is simply no comparison. Not that a good scan is cheap, but purely in terms of technical quality film can produce much better images for the moment and for some time. Most commercial advertising photography is going to digital houses NOT because digital images contain superior image quality but because digital images are superior for control and manipulation using current prepress technology, get it straight. GF cannot create detail from an image file that lacks it. The VERY BEST you can get out of GF is to maintain the same level of image quality for a given angle of view and viewing distance. Take a small, low res. image file that looks OK at 18" and resize it to 30x40 and view it at the same distance as the small image output and you will see crap with no more detail than before. Indeed, many have compared GF generated images to PS generated resizing and found that the GF images are generally no better than simple PS bicubic resizing. The results have been posted here and on the web. Just because you have not seen a stunning 30x40 print from a film image is poor evidence that digital cameras produce better images. You just may not have seen a 30x40 print generated from a well scanned 35mm film original at 8,000dpi and retouched and output by a good operator. Don't let your experience limit you, the truth is out there! ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Note the term you use, well scanned, so the result is digital! You cannot get the same result direct from negative, hence both are digital! I rest my case. Peter K * **** ******* *********************************************************** * For list instructions, including unsubscribe, see: * http://www.a1.nl/phomepag/markerink/eos_list.htm ***********************************************************
