[Leica] Up-resolution with PS Enhance and with Gigapixel

[Don Dory]

Another solution is to walk around with an M10R with a 21 Summilux and a 90
APO in your pocket.  For most uses use auto iso, f8 and set your focus to 2
meters.   Good to an effective 100 with help of software and with some
focusing and the 90 you are good to an effective 300mm or so.

For the birders out there the possibilities for the smaller songbirds and a
good 600 are quite interesting.

On Mon, Jun 28, 2021, 10:30 AM Howard L Ritter Jr via LUG <
lug at leica-users.org> 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
>
>
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