Boris Liberman wrote: >> http://www.robertstech.com/temp/multi-02a.jpg (200kb!) > >Mark, there is great amount of minute detail on this shot. Usually >digital has problems past certain level of resolution combined with >certain size of (big) enlargement. When I visited Jostein two years ago >we pondered an A3 (or was it A2?) print of some shot he made and we saw >how minute details become rather messy. > >Here you have immense number of pixels. I wonder if you printed it big, >say A2, would the minute details show as such or would they be washed >out by lack of resolution. > >Again, I am not trying to attack you or your work in any way. I am >merely trying to think out loud purely in technical/technological domain.
The detail is the precise reason why I took this photo and the reason why I decided to do it as a 12-shot stitch. I realized that a 6-megapixel image would never adequately show the textures that attracted me to this scene. 50 megapixels do the job quite nicely, though :) Probably "only" equivalent to a medium format photo because of suboptimal technique on my part; if I'd used a better lens (the Vivitar doesn't lack sharpness but suffered some zoom creep between shots) and a proper panorama head I think it would be pretty much the equal of 4 x 5 film. Something you obviously can't appreciate with the downsized web image is how, with the original in Photoshop, you can just keep zooming in over and over without lessening of apparent detail. I keep doing it just to convince myself it's real! Here's a 100% crop: http://www.robertstech.com/temp/detail.jpg -- Mark Roberts Photography & Multimedia www.robertstech.com 412-687-2835 -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
