[Leica] Genuine Fractals-any good?

[locke at straylight.ca (Greg Locke)]

Genuine Fractals works well.
We had it at the newspaper for "pumping up" small files,

My printer has used it to take files from a D100 (17.5 megs) and make prints
in excess of 24X36 inches.

Go for it.

Greg Locke
St. John's, Newfoundland
http://blog.greglocke.com
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: lug-bounces+locke=straylight.ca@leica-users.org 
> [mailto:lug-bounces+locke=straylight.ca@leica-users.org] On 
> Behalf Of Nathan Wajsman
> Sent: Wednesday, October 13, 2004 2:18 PM
> To: Leica Users Group
> Subject: [Leica] Genuine Fractals-any good?
> 
> I have decided to see if I can sell some photos via a UK 
> stock agency. 
> Maybe I can pay for a lens this way, who knows. Anyway, they 
> have minimum size requirements (48 MB for color, 16 MB for 
> grayscale) and suggest Genuine Fractals for upsampling if 
> needed. I checked on their web site, and the version I would 
> need is $150 with no free trial period. So, before I buy: is 
> this any good? Specifically, if I need to turn an 18 MB 
> Photoshop file into a 48 MB TIFF file, will the results be 
> any good? Or am I just wasting my money?
> 
> TIA,
> Nathan
> --
> Nathan Wajsman
> Almere, The Netherlands
> 
> General photography: http://www.nathanfoto.com Seville 
> photography: http://www.fotosevilla.com
> 
> 
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