[Leica] Q2

[Howard L Ritter Jr]

I just recently tried out Gigapixel as well as the new PS Enhance feature. I’ve only compared one image file so far, one with a fir tree in the center and lots of needles to test the resolution.

GP is the clear winner over PS.

As far as cropping and enlarging to mimic a longer lens goes, the Q2 image up-res’ed and cropped, both by a factor of 2, to mimic a 47 Mpx 56mm image, is strikingly superior to a primary 50mm 42 MPx image. I have not yet up-res’ed the Sony image, but I expect it to be correspondingly better, but that would be wasted storage space except for the exceptional image that’s going to be made into a 4’ x 6’ poster – the take-home point is that if a 47 Mpx file has all the resolution I’ll ever need and ~50mm all the longer a lens, then the Q2 hits the sweet spot for me. Actually, since 15-20 Mpx might do it (15 looks fabulous at 13 x 21 inches on my 250-dpi iMac), then the Q2 gives me the equivalent of ~ 90mm.

> On Jun 12, 2021, at 5:55 PM, Ken Carney via LUG <lug at leica-users.org> wrote:
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> I have used Gigapixel since it came out and it works as advertised, though it needs a stout graphics card, at least 4gb vram, 8 is better.  Since Photoshop and Lightroom now come with a similar app,2x Super Resolution, you might get the trial version of Gigapixel and compare.  They look the same to me. 
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> Sent from my iPad
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>> On Jun 12, 2021, at 10:57 AM, Howard L Ritter Jr via LUG <lug at leica-users.org> wrote:
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