[filmscanners] Re: Genuine fractals?????

2004-11-25 Thread Myles
Date sent: Sat, 20 Nov 2004 15:12:13 -0600 Send reply to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Laurie Solomon [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:[filmscanners] RE: Genuine fractals? I use the program frequently

[filmscanners] RE: Genuine fractals?????

2004-11-25 Thread LAURIE SOLOMON
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[filmscanners] RE: Genuine fractals?????

2004-11-25 Thread Jawed Ashraf
to do with the dpi setting recorded in a digital camera file. Jawed -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of LAURIE SOLOMON Sent: 25 November 2004 17:36 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [filmscanners] RE: Genuine fractals? Well, I do

[filmscanners] RE: Genuine fractals?????

2004-11-25 Thread Preston Earle
LAURIE SOLOMON wrote: Well, I do not own that camera and am not familiar with it; but I assume that if you look in the manual you will find that you can capture your images at around 300 dpi and save them to a tiff format; but capturing them at a high resolution around 300 dpi as a RAW file would

[filmscanners] RE: Genuine fractals?????

2004-11-25 Thread LAURIE SOLOMON
:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Jawed Ashraf Sent: Thursday, November 25, 2004 12:16 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [filmscanners] RE: Genuine fractals? The dpi setting of a digital camera file is utterly irrelevant here. Different cameras output their files (no matter their format) at fixed dpi

[filmscanners] RE: Genuine fractals?????

2004-11-25 Thread LAURIE SOLOMON
printing press for puting on the refrigerator, greeting cards, displaying on a wall, or for publication). -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Preston Earle Sent: Thursday, November 25, 2004 12:29 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [filmscanners] RE

[filmscanners] RE: Genuine fractals?????

2004-11-25 Thread Jawed Ashraf
Put simply, you're confused by the way that certain software applications (e.g. Photoshop or scanner software such as Nikon View) allow the user to specify the pixel-dimensions of a destination image by specifying dpi and linear dimensions (in units that are not pixels - e.g. by requesting an 8

[filmscanners] RE: Genuine fractals?????

2004-11-25 Thread Paul D. DeRocco
From: LAURIE SOLOMON Preston, technically you are correct in saying failes do not have resolution and even in saying that their contents do not either; but standard non-RAW file formats do contain metadata which furnish rendering instructions which tell the program to render the 3000x2100

[filmscanners] RE: Genuine fractals?????

2004-11-21 Thread Paul D. DeRocco
Sorry, the two images are: http://www.pbase.com/pderocco/image/36593399 http://www.pbase.com/pderocco/image/36593400 -- Ciao, Paul D. DeRocco Paulmailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

[filmscanners] Re: Genuine fractals?????

2004-11-21 Thread David J. Littleboy
From: Paul D. DeRocco [EMAIL PROTECTED] I've posted a pair of examples, both involving blowing up by 10x a small piece of an image that had some architectural edges as well as some non-edge detail. You can see what I mean: http://www.pbase.com/pderocco/image/36593399

[filmscanners] RE: Genuine fractals?????

2004-11-21 Thread Stan Schwartz
Paul, Help me with the math here. What would be the final dimension of the image whose snippet you are displaying here? And for reference, your 10D captures an image of about 3K pixels on the long dimension, right? Stan Schwartz Paul wrote: I've posted a pair of examples, both involving

[filmscanners] RE: Genuine fractals?????

2004-11-21 Thread LAURIE SOLOMON
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [filmscanners] RE: Genuine fractals? From: Laurie Solomon Yes, the tests were done prior to PSCS and I know of none done since. I am not sure if Adobe made significant improvements to the basic Bicubic formulation as much as they made its implementation more

[filmscanners] RE: Genuine fractals?????

2004-11-21 Thread Paul D. DeRocco
From: LAURIE SOLOMON Again I have no complaint with your description of the differences between GF and Bicubic and potential artifacts and byproducts of each. I looked at your two examples and for the life of me I cannot see any differnces between them and do not see the artificial

[filmscanners] RE: Genuine fractals?????

2004-11-21 Thread Paul D. DeRocco
From: Stan Schwartz Help me with the math here. What would be the final dimension of the image whose snippet you are displaying here? And for reference, your 10D captures an image of about 3K pixels on the long dimension, right? The 10D is 3072x2048. The magnification in both those test

[filmscanners] RE: Genuine fractals?????

2004-11-20 Thread Laurie Solomon
I use the program frequently; and find that for most upsampling within the normal ranges, it is not all that much different from Photoshop's Bicubic methods. It is in the extreme ranges of upsampling that the difference may begin to appe arandGFmaybegintoshine. What I do not understand is,

[filmscanners] Re: Genuine fractals?????

2004-11-20 Thread Brad Davis
On 20/11/04 13:12, Laurie Solomon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I use the program frequently; and find that for most upsampling within the normal ranges, it is not all that much different from Photoshop's Bicubic methods. It is in the extreme ranges of upsampling that the difference may begin to

[filmscanners] RE: Genuine fractals?????

2004-11-20 Thread Laurie Solomon
As it happens, I can get a pretty good 8X10 from such a file, but then I go to 12X18 (if I can live with no cropping), Well, I did a commercial job using as an experiemnt a point and shoot 4.3Mp Nikon Coolpix camera captured at maximium resolution of 240ppi into a TIFF format just to see what

[filmscanners] RE: Genuine fractals?????

2004-11-20 Thread Paul D. DeRocco
From: Brad Davis Anybody using Genuine Fractals as a way to up sample images? My scanner provides very high resolution compared to my (current) digital camera, but there are times when I have taken an image with the digital camera that I would like to enlarge. I've had some success with

[filmscanners] Re: Genuine fractals?????

2004-11-20 Thread Brad Davis
Paul, thanks, that's a useful piece of information. Brad On 20/11/04 17:44, Paul D. DeRocco [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Brad Davis Anybody using Genuine Fractals as a way to up sample images? My scanner provides very high resolution compared to my (current) digital camera, but there

[filmscanners] RE: Genuine fractals?????

2004-11-20 Thread LAURIE SOLOMON
Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Paul D. DeRocco Sent: Saturday, November 20, 2004 7:44 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [filmscanners] RE: Genuine fractals? From: Brad Davis Anybody using Genuine Fractals as a way to up sample images? My scanner

[filmscanners] Re: Genuine fractals?????

2004-11-20 Thread Ed Verkaik
From: LAURIE SOLOMON [EMAIL PROTECTED] I have even seen comparisions of sections of 35mm images blown up to billboard size by GF and Photoshop where GF has come out ahead in terms of lower numbers of artifacts and averaging errors. Just to clarify, though... this refers to pre-CS versions of PS

[filmscanners] Re: Genuine fractals?????

2004-11-20 Thread Laurie Solomon
as evidence that the GF limits do not stop at upsamplings of lower than 4 or 5 X. - Original Message - From: Ed Verkaik [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, November 21, 2004 12:15 AM Subject: [filmscanners] Re: Genuine fractals? From: LAURIE SOLOMON [EMAIL PROTECTED] I have

[filmscanners] RE: Genuine fractals?????

2004-11-20 Thread Paul D. DeRocco
From: Laurie Solomon Yes, the tests were done prior to PSCS and I know of none done since. I am not sure if Adobe made significant improvements to the basic Bicubic formulation as much as they made its implementation more sophisticated by furnishing two subtle variations on the basic

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2001-10-19 Thread Ebert Steele
Given an earlier long tread about Genuine Fractals, I hope this is not considered too OT. Anyone who might have received the subject program as a bundle and didn't install and register it care to sell it? Thank you, Ebert STeele