[geeks] photogeeks?

[Don McClure]

on 5/17/02 12:01 AM, Sridhar the POWERful at vance at ikickass.org wrote:


> 
> Resolution, probably.  Definition and contrast, maybe not.  My Olympus
> C-700, and *certainly* my dad's $2000 E-10 SLR, get *excellent* contrast,
> and if I print on a dye-sub continuous tone printer, the photos they take
> are above the effective resolution of the printer anyway.  Makes an
> excellent facsimile of a photograph.
> 

Yeah, the prints can be nice, as long as you don't go any bigger then about
8x10. A color 35mm slide has about 20 megapixels of information, while most
digital cameras only have 10-20 percent percent of that.

Of course, the quality of cheap point and shoot lenses won't stand much
enlargement either, especially the zooms. Even the prime lenses are just
triplets.

Don McClure
Bel Air, MD