I think the aliasing problem can be more severe if you are not working in
the constraints of the portrait studio.

In location work, eg: architectural exteriors it can appear on all sorts
of surface textures.  For example a building that I shot was faced with
flint and the result was covered with many tiny magenta pinpricks. 
Specular highlights are fringed and spotted with magenta. Fixing this eg:
by de-sat filtering or noise reduction can knock the "emotion" out of the
results.

This camera takes great pictures when it is photographing scenes with the
right sort of lighting.  If you arent' lucky then in my view the post
processing is far too onerous and may remove quality.

It requires less manual processing to shoot film then scan. The elapsed
time is longer and you can't take as many shots with this... but I feel 
the advantages of a purely digital process can be overstated.

In my view the reviews I have seen have downplayed these problems as most
of them have involved studio style tests.

I wish this wasn't true, because when things go well, this camera does
indeed begin to reach MF quality.

>The lack of an AA filter helps to give really great
> resolution.  It also yields images with more aliasing artifacts and
> moire than your used to with a D1x.  I like working without an AA
> filter.

> The forums at places like dpreview
> are littered with posts (flames?) from photographers who haven't quite
> grasped this concept yet.


-- 
Paul R. W. Freeman

w:www.architecturalimages.co.uk


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