Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/10/13

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Subject: [Leica] Genuine Fractals-any good?
From: philippe.orlent at pandora.be (Philippe Orlent)
Date: Wed Oct 13 10:13:05 2004

Newspapers print at 85 lpi. That's allmost 1/2 of magazines (135 lpi).
I can imagine that you don't see that much of the quality loss in a
newspaper, because the printing quality of the newspaper itself isn't that
good.


> From: "Greg Locke" <locke@straylight.ca>
> Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org>
> Date: Wed, 13 Oct 2004 14:28:51 -0230
> To: "'Leica Users Group'" <lug@leica-users.org>
> Subject: RE: [Leica] Genuine Fractals-any good?
> 
> 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
> -----------------------------
> Independent journalism from
> Newfoundland & Labrador
> 
> 
>> -----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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