[Leica] OT: Help! How many Megapixels needed?

[Mark Rabiner]

Although the only way you're going to see grain when printing a Kodachrome
25 transparency is with a good grain magnifier.. Once you make even an
16x20" print a magnifying glass helps to see it.
On the other hand from blow ups from Kodachrome 400 no problem looks like
Tri x in D76 1:1. Not magnification necessary.


On 10/28/15 1:11 PM, "Tina Manley" <images at comporium.net> wrote:

> I agree, discounting the appeal of film which has its own characteristics.
I
> would never compare Kodachrome to digital and expect to get similar
results.
> Kodachrome doesn't enlarge the same at all.  With digital the
grain does not
> interfere with the image, with Kodachrome, the grain defines
the
> image.

Tina

On Wed, Oct 28, 2015 at 1:04 PM, Doug Herr
> <wildlightphoto at earthlink.net>
wrote:

> Larry Zeitlin wrote:
>
> >>>
> For
> people that want to produce 11² x 14² to 16² x 20² prints or publish
> their
> work in most consumer magazines, not display gigantic Colorama sized
> prints
> from minuscule portions of the frame area, does the number of pixels
> really
> matter? Inquiring minds want to know.
>         Larry Z
> <<<
>
> Yes and no.
> For prints up to 18" x 24" (I haven't printed larger) the
> DMR's 10MP has
> been adequate to make gallery owners swoon, and there's no
> way I'd try
> printing a Kodachrome image that size and expect similar
> quality.
>
> OTOH
> one of the stock agencies I'm working with has minimum pixel
> requirements
> and the DMR's 10MP doesn't leave a lot of headroom for
> cropping.  The a7II's
> 24MP gives me a lot more cropping flexibility.  YMMV.
>
> Doug Herr
> Birdman
> of Sacramento
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>
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>
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