Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/04/08
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Mike, I wouldn't dump your Leica's yet. In order to capture the same amount of data as film, digital will need to be over 30-megapixels. That's a fair ways off. Those 30-megabyte scans that you're getting from a Nikon scanner are o.k. for inkjet prints at 8 x 10 or 11 x 14, but in the graphics/printing world we regularly work with 200-megabyte scans for an 11 x 17 inch magazine spread -- and even those are used for the relatively low-resolution web-offset printing process. Your analog film camera will win the quality contest for quite a while yet. Tim >Subject: Re: [Leica] Digital resolution > >Oops. Thanks for (very tactful) the correction. >I should have said 28M bytes of STORAGE. My mistake. > >That represents only 10M pixels (according to Nikon). >I guess the gap is closing faster than I thought. >Maybe I should join Dominique and start disposing of my Leicas... > >How deep are the pixels on those digital beasts? > >Mike Quinn