Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/02/21
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 10:30 AM 2/21/2003 -0500, you wrote: >Tina - The need for large file sizes is NOT exaggerated if you want to >produce decent size prints at good resolution. First off, while >newspapers can and do use small files because they print at low >resolution, I know that when I wrote and shot a story for Newsday last >summer, they wanted files of 11 meg, which while not huge, are hardly >small. The files from the Digilux when saved as uncompressed Tiffs are over 11 megabytes. So I guess it's not too small! I've made 16x20 prints that surpass prints from TMax 400 film. >Not wanting to be a pain in the ass - much - but I think this might be a >time for us to be reminded that you do work for Leica, including making >presentations on the Digilux. The reality here is that the Digilux is a >high-end digital P&S, which some people love and which some reviewers >don't love - but whether it is or isn't a great P&S, it is hardly a >camera that most photojournalists would consider as a main digital >camera. Leica didn't give me Digilux or even a break on the price. I bought it because it is the closest thing available to a digital M. It will do until something better comes along ;-) I can't take a big, heavy, clunking digital SLR to the Mosquito Coast in April, but I can take the Digilux. Don't knock it until you've tried it. With all due respect ;-) Tina Tina Manley, ASMP http://www.tinamanley.com photos available from: http://www.pdiphotos.com http://www.mira.com http://www.agpix.com http://www.newscom.com - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html