All comments fully anticipated and accepted, Bill. Any DSLR could have been used for the comparison, but had the K20D displayed less than a 'good' noise example, IDS, it wouldn't have been chosen. It's offered for those who will relish their food a bit more if their choice of photo systems seems further verified.
Jack --- William Robb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Jack Davis" > Subject: In the same Pop Photo Issue... > > > > There is, also, a Michael McNamara article in the March issue > titled, > > "Digital Wins". > > To make his point that digital noise is a less grainy image than is > > that made with film of the same ISO rating, he displays two > thumbnail > > images. He chose 1600 ISO to demonstrate. > > The film image is a scan of Fujicolor Superia and the digital image > is > > that made with a K20D. > > His point is certainly confirmed when the comparison is made. (have > a > > magnifying glass at hand) ;) > > As soon as the film is scanned, the comparison becomes irrelevant. > Scanning introduces a lot of > issues such as grain aliasing and other artifacts. When someone makes > an optical orint and > compares it to a digital print, then they are making a valid > comparison. > Having said that, I owuld be very surprised if a 35mm film print of > any speed of film would look > as good as a print from a 14mp SLR shot at the same ISO. > > William Robb > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above > and follow the directions. > ____________________________________________________________________________________ Looking for last minute shopping deals? Find them fast with Yahoo! Search. http://tools.search.yahoo.com/newsearch/category.php?category=shopping -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
