Hi Shangara You asked: > Is the interpolation better than the one offered by Photoshop? Have you > done > some comparison tests? Also, maybe using Fred Miranda's stair stepping > action to do some comparisons with Photoshop's bicubic?
I can only compare the Fuji S1 with the Canon D30 (only 1 job though and that was a long time ago) My opinion then was that the CMOS gave really nice results possibly better than CCD and that Photoshop would interpolate them to the same size satisfactorily (the canon D30 with the battery pack/grip attached was a much nicer camera to use). At that time I was saying stay with Canon if you use Canon and stay with Nikon if you have Nikon kit. I have tried Fred Miranda's stair stepping with some success BUT it seems to me that the subject makes all the difference, all these digital cameras process the image and the edges within a picture can get quite ragged - except (in my totally unscientific opinion based solely on viewed result) for the Kodak DCS 760 which with in camera sharpening switched off gives a file that is near perfect for anything in Photoshop. If you can afford the Kodak 14n (CMOS sensor too) IF it yields the same quality as the DCS760 it will be as ahead of all the competition as the DCS760 was when it was launched. It has a Nikon body too. I also suspect there may be differences from one individual camera to another, my friend with the DCS760s certainly found that but Kodak fixed it, I think they changed the CCD. >the S2 has a firewire connection and the D60 doesn't and that could be an advantage. Is > not having a firewire connection a hindrance in the real world? Depends how you work. I have been using the S1 with a microdrive and always down load using a card reader or direct via the adaptor into the laptop PCMCIA slot. I have used the S1 controlled by the PC via USB mostly in the studio for catalogue product photographs very successfully. It is painfully slow until you compare it with shooting polaroids and transparency film! So far I have only downloaded files via the Firewire from the S2 and that seems very fast. Paul Lawrence LBIPP LRPS --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.422 / Virus Database: 237 - Release Date: 20/11/2002 =============================================================== GO TO http://www.prodig.org for ~ GUIDELINES ~ un/SUBSCRIBING ~ ITEMS for SALE
