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From: "Shel Belinkoff"
Subject: Re: Pentax Pre PMA announcment.
At the last NorCal get together that I attended, Bruce showed one of his
photos made with the istD blown up to 16x20, or some other such large
size.
Larger than the 13x19 or so which a lot of people print at. The print was
soft, and Bruce admitted so. It didn't look bad from a distance, but it
was not as sharp as the smaller prints. IMO, 6mp was not "good enough"
for
that sized print.
Good enough takes many forms, and is, of course, at times, subjective.
IMO
6mp is enough for magazines and most print work. It's not good enough for
some large, exhibition-sized prints.
It is good enough for general portraiture, but this work is not as detail
dependant, and in fact, less detail is often desirable than more.
I've done a few 16x24 inch prints off the Epson that are quite nice.
OTOH, if I wanted to do something more akin to my large format landscapes, I
think it would take a dozen or more exposures pasted together to get the
kind of detail I would be wanting.
William Robb
