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Subject: [Leica] Up-resolution with PS Enhance and with Gigapixel
From: cartersxrd at gmail.com (RicCarter)
Date: Mon, 28 Jun 2021 21:35:34 -0400
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I could not see the difference in the gallery.

BUT THEN! I downloaded the images and blew them up a bunch! Gigapixel just 
absolutely astonished me! By far superior.

ric


> On Jun 28, 2021, at 8:37 PM, Aram Langhans via LUG <lug at 
> leica-users.org> wrote:
> 
> Howard.  When I look at these I have to admit to myself that the Q2 w/o 
> any enhancement looks best to my eye.  The PS Enhance does not look too 
> bad, but the Gigapixle seems way overdone.  Edge artifacts make it look 
> pushed too much.  Especially between the sky and rocks and the details 
> along the light/dark edges on the rocks.  Maybe you pushed the sliders a 
> bit too much? I would try a more modest attack with Gigapixle.
> 
> Just my 2 cents worth, but i see it is not in agreement with the other 
> comments I have read as far out as the digest goes.
> 
> Aram
> 
> On 6/28/2021 8:30 AM, Howard L Ritter Jr wrote:
>> I have two reasons for wanting to post just now. One is my recent trip to 
>> Iceland, a maiden voyage for my new Q2. The other is the recent 
>> availability of PS Enhance and Topaz Gigapixel AI. The two themes fit 
>> together nicely because up-res?ing could be a key to making the 
>> single-FL, high-Mpx Q2 even more versatile, by increasing the effective 
>> FL that can be realized from cropping and enlarging. I speculated that 
>> state-of-the-art up-res?ing by a factor of 2 might allow for decent 
>> prints (or viewing on a monitor) in the 25?-wide range of down to 25% 
>> crops (equivalent to FL 112mm). This is well past the Q?s ?digital zoom? 
>> limit of 75mm, which of course isn?t anything but a built-in crop since 
>> it (properly) doesn?t involve any image manipulation.
>> 
>> I?ll be posting an album of images from Iceland soon, as well as my 
>> impressions of the Q2. Here?s a first one, with a 117mm-equiv. 24% crop 
>> presented natively, after PS Enhance, and after Gigapixel. (I was aiming 
>> for a 25% crop, but this is where I landed.)
>> 
>> I?d welcome comments on the results themselves as well as your takes on 
>> the comparison of the two methods of up-res?ing.
>> 
>> 
>> http://www.gallery.leica-users.org/v/hlritter/Up-res+test/?g2_fromNavId=x2d271756
>>  
>> <http://www.gallery.leica-users.org/v/hlritter/Up-res+test/?g2_fromNavId=x2d271756>
>> 
>> 
>> ?howard
>> 
>> 
> -- 
> Aram Langhans
> (Semi) Retired Science Teacher
> & Unemployed photographer
> ?The Human Genome Project has proved Darwin more right than Darwin himself 
> would ever have dared dream.?
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Replies: Reply from sonc.hegr at gmail.com (Sonny Carter) ([Leica] Up-resolution with PS Enhance and with Gigapixel)
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