Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2021/06/28
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I could not see the difference in the gallery. BUT THEN! I downloaded the images and blew them up a bunch! Gigapixel just absolutely astonished me! By far superior. ric > On Jun 28, 2021, at 8:37 PM, Aram Langhans via LUG <lug at > leica-users.org> wrote: > > Howard. When I look at these I have to admit to myself that the Q2 w/o > any enhancement looks best to my eye. The PS Enhance does not look too > bad, but the Gigapixle seems way overdone. Edge artifacts make it look > pushed too much. Especially between the sky and rocks and the details > along the light/dark edges on the rocks. Maybe you pushed the sliders a > bit too much? I would try a more modest attack with Gigapixle. > > Just my 2 cents worth, but i see it is not in agreement with the other > comments I have read as far out as the digest goes. > > Aram > > On 6/28/2021 8:30 AM, Howard L Ritter Jr wrote: >> I have two reasons for wanting to post just now. One is my recent trip to >> Iceland, a maiden voyage for my new Q2. The other is the recent >> availability of PS Enhance and Topaz Gigapixel AI. The two themes fit >> together nicely because up-res?ing could be a key to making the >> single-FL, high-Mpx Q2 even more versatile, by increasing the effective >> FL that can be realized from cropping and enlarging. I speculated that >> state-of-the-art up-res?ing by a factor of 2 might allow for decent >> prints (or viewing on a monitor) in the 25?-wide range of down to 25% >> crops (equivalent to FL 112mm). This is well past the Q?s ?digital zoom? >> limit of 75mm, which of course isn?t anything but a built-in crop since >> it (properly) doesn?t involve any image manipulation. >> >> I?ll be posting an album of images from Iceland soon, as well as my >> impressions of the Q2. Here?s a first one, with a 117mm-equiv. 24% crop >> presented natively, after PS Enhance, and after Gigapixel. (I was aiming >> for a 25% crop, but this is where I landed.) >> >> I?d welcome comments on the results themselves as well as your takes on >> the comparison of the two methods of up-res?ing. >> >> >> http://www.gallery.leica-users.org/v/hlritter/Up-res+test/?g2_fromNavId=x2d271756 >> >> <http://www.gallery.leica-users.org/v/hlritter/Up-res+test/?g2_fromNavId=x2d271756> >> >> >> ?howard >> >> > -- > Aram Langhans > (Semi) Retired Science Teacher > & Unemployed photographer > ?The Human Genome Project has proved Darwin more right than Darwin himself > would ever have dared dream.? > James D. Watson > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information