Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/02/22
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]An 11 meg file when converted to grayscale for B&W, which I do, becomes about a 3 to 4 meg file, which leaves very little if any room for manipulation, particularly to produce large prints. And if you get better gray scale files from a gray scale conversion of an image that started as an 11 meg color digital file than you do with what I assume is a 4000 dpi - or 20 meg 8 bit scan of a T-Max neg, you are doing something very very wrong with your T-Max. I shoot and scan tri-x, and I shoot with a camera that produces uncompressed Tiffs of over 11 meg - and the two simply cannot be compared when producing prints larger than about 8x10 - certainly not 16x20s. And, while I understood that you paid for your Digilux, am I not correct in understanding that you were included in the Cape Cod - Park Square/Leica underwritten - photo workshop to give a workshop specifically on the Digilux? That, to me, is doing promotional work for Leica. God knows there's nothing wrong with it - I'd be happy to do such work! - but it might have some impact on your view of the quality of how those 11 meg color tiffs, which reduce to 3-4 meg grayscale tiffs, produce 16x20s that are superior to 20 meg grayscale scans of film. ;-) B. D. - -----Original Message----- From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us [mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us] On Behalf Of Tina Manley Sent: Saturday, February 22, 2003 12:49 AM To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us Subject: RE: [Leica] Digital - Rumor Mongering apologies to Mark R. 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 - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html