Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/10/30
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]> the state of the art in digital imaging is currently at > about the development of a '32 Ford V-8...in its > infancy. I completely agree with that. > Qualitatively it's still years behind silver. I > delivered a 16x20 print to a customer this afternoon, > made from and 8x10 negative. None of these silly little > desktops come even remotely close. there's the > equivalent of 2 gigabytes of information there. That's not really a very informative statement. Desktop digital is hardly the state of the art of digital. There are far better digital cameras, scanners and printers out there that cost in the tens of thousands of dollars, and easily compete, especially when you are talking about a dinky little 16x20 print. In fact, a 16x20 chemical print can't even resolve all the information on an 8x10 negative... An 8x10 film has the equivelent of around (at 4000DPI) 32,000 x 40,000 pixels, or 1,280,000,000 bytes, depending on the lense you used... unless you were talking color, then at 8 bits/color that would be 3,840,000,000. So, you're right in the ball part when you say 2G. Obviously, all this depends on the film, film speed, development and exposure conditions. All this aside, you haven't seen a well done Piezography print I take it? - ----- Sent using MailStart.com ( http://MailStart.Com/welcome.html ) The FREE way to access your mailbox via any web browser, anywhere!