A couple of more thoughts on this... >A couple of thoughts on this: > >On Oct 30, 2003, at 12:50 PM, Nelson Helm wrote: > >>Basics: A Shutterbug's Guide to Meting Out the Megapixels >> >>October 30, 2003
Items deleted...... > >>Those numbers are no match for 35-millimeter film, which has a >>resolution equivalent to 20 or 30 megapixels, but digital cameras >>can nonetheless produce excellent images. >> > >Canon and Kodak and Nikon and others offer digital cameras with what >are called full frame sensor that are 35 mm (and more) equivalents >(but the cost ... see above note), though rumor has it that we may >see a digital body with full frame sensors for about $2000 around >late spring or early summer. > Only Canon and Kodak($10,000-$15,000) offer full frame(14 megapixel) digital cameras currently, the biggest Nikon you can get is 6 megapixel (D2H,which technically isn't available yet!), the D1X($4500) is 5.3 megapixel. I do not agree with his quality comment, Sports Illustrated has been shooting digital for quite a while now and you cannot tell a difference between the film images and the digital images in the magazine! Best, John -- U-2 and SR-71 Web Page http://www.blackbirds.net Those who would sacrifice Liberty for Security deserve neither -Benjamin Franklin | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will | be November 25. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. | This list's page is <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup>.
