Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/04/18
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]One thing for certain, it is 100% impossible to differentiate between a 2mp, 4mp, 6mp, a 4x5 Velvia scan, whatever, on a web posted photograph. One needs to have the camera in hand, actually several cameras in hand, followed by a side by side print (all going through the same exact process) comparison. And then it would be best to have the cameras deliver "raw" pixel data (TIFF type raw file) to the outside world in order to eliminate interpolation shenanigans within the camera. In camera interpolation shenanigans are what is separating the cameras now. With their clothes off, their files pretty much look the same. :) Jim ps... The MOST sold digital camera in 2001... a 1.5 MP Hewlett Packard happy snapper. Is there big money in high end professional film or DIGITAL cameras? Absolutely not! The BIG market is in rank amateur happy snappers. Jim again At 09:49 AM 4/18/2002 -0400, John Brownlow wrote: >Thought folks would be interested in this. The web link cited takes you to a >page of sample shots. Most of them are downsampled and so meaningless but >there are two detail shots there that are interesting. > >-- >John Brownlow > >At 6:10 PM -0600 4/17/02, Stephen Johnson wrote: > > >- The new Foveon sensor > > > >I've been consulting with Foveon for a few years now and am impressed > >by their innovations. When they described their full resolution color > >chip to me a few years back, I was very excited by its prospects. I > >started testing the camera last summer and have made a number of good > >quality photographs. We were quite busy in February with this work > >and I've posted some samples on my website: > > > >http://www.sjphoto.com/web-special > > > >I'll write more about this exciting development in the next newsletter. - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html