Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/09/29
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]When I was at PMA looking at all the output from all the digital cameras it was obvious that the images were carefully styled to avoid resolution issues. You could find lovely masses of color but nothing with really fine detail. So at that point Austin's points were exactly on target. Even the images that Monte Zucker was producing from a prototype D60 showed high sharpness but not necessarily fine detail. You could see pores and hairs but not the fine structure typical under a subjects eyes when shot with a 75 Lux between F4 and F8. Nice, but nothing to spend money on. So then I look at the comparison Reichman shows. Even though I suspect that there were wildly different levels of USM applied to the image from the 11MP CMOS versus the film, the digital file had a lot of sharpness. Contemplating the image used, it did not have the fine detail you would want to see, you know the fuzz on a rose that only a really good optical system brings out. I know an 11MP image doesn't cut it for me: that's why I upgraded my scanner from 2700 dpi to 3600 dpi. On the other hand I believe Austin is correct that the results shouldn't be as produced. Possibly Austin was hinting at the correct answer when he talked about made up information. Therefore until I have some images in hand I will operate off the premise that there is some serious processing going on inside the Canon finding edges and interpolating data to make really crisp looking images. All of the above brings to mind the mind game: if the image looks really good, does it matter if more than half is made up by a committee of programmers who have created rules about what an image should look like? Don dorysrus@mindspring.com - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html