[PRODIG] introduction

[Clive Barda]

My name is Clive Barda and I specialise in photography connected with the performing arts.  For obvious reasons I shoot "35mm" digital (EOS1D) and have been very pleased with the quality of the pictures I get, especially for production photography where I get shadow and highlight detail I only dreamt of when shooting tranny.  Much better colour too.   My initial inquiry is whether anyone has any experience of using Genuine Fractals software (or any other method) to increase file size.  They claim on their web site to be able to increase file size by 600% with no degradation which sounds too good to be true.  I always shoot RAW files which convert to 11.7MB TIFF files.  An advertising agency wants to use a picture of mine, slightly cropped, for a 4 sheet poster (60"x40") and they are very reluctant to give it a try from the original file even though I've had surprisingly good results with considerably bigger blow-ups on theatre front-of-house prints.   Any ideas about this matter (quite urgent) would be very welcome.   Thanks.   Clive Barda