Shortly before Xmas, I fell under the spell of Mike's enabling phrases in the 37th Frame and purchased a 3.3 megapixel digital camera. I bought a 128 meg memory card and have been shooting everything at maximum resolution ever since. I've probably shot 200 or 300 photos in the last month. The results are satisfying and available in a hurry. The resolution isn't too bad either!
But, the shutter delay and recording delay are enough to drive any 35mm shooter crazy! Talk about trying to anticipate the decisive moment... I looked at some of the stuff my sister had shot on a 1.3 megapixel digital and printed on her printer. It looked pretty good, if a little rough. But it bothered me that I couldn't get better results from my printer...which had a bad case of banding. Plus all you guys fooling around with that printer challenge stuff, didn't I have an 870 series Epson? Shouldn't it do OK? This weekend my sister dropped by with some of her glossy paper. She left me 4 or 5 sheets. This morning I printed a digital photo from vacation on her paper. Wow, what a difference. I had no more banding, more vibrant colors, and I couldn't detect resolution problems. I was impressed enough that I went out and bought some glossy photo inkjet paper. I don't know what is wrong with the 2 other batches of paper I have, but this stuff works great. I printed out 2 family photos of my brother's kids and they look good. I printed out a scan of a 23 year old slide with similar results. A great deal of the detail in the original slide is visible in the print...complete with a chicken wire fence at 50 feet with a 50mm lens! So now I'm a happy camper. I can make reasonable quality 8x10 digital prints of digital photos or slides I have had scanned. It opens up some new possibilities. Thanks for keeping the topic open until I could figure out how to do it! <g> Regards, Bob S. - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org .
