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Sigma 18-125mm f/3.5-5.6 DC for Canon

07/08/2005 05:52:03 PM · #1

Like i've been saying for some time, you can get great prints even from 1mp files! I finally found some visual proof for this. These are photos of prints from a D30 (3.0mp camera) printed VERY large. They were processed with interpolation and the results are stunning!

//www.nyphotographics.com/blowupsample.htm

Kavey

Canon EOS-400D Rebel XTi

07/08/2005 05:55:50 PM · #2

Those are great shots - not just the ones in the prints but I mean the shots of the prints hung up with the people infront... love it!

07/08/2005 05:58:24 PM · #3

Yeah those are cool.

I've been debating recently whether I'm better of shooting stock with my 1.6x crop 300D @ 6.3 MP, or my 1.3x crop 1D @ 4 MP. :-/

Message edited by author 2005-07-08 17:58:37.

07/08/2005 05:59:07 PM · #4

Originally posted by PaulMdx:

Yeah those are cool.

I've been debating recently whether I'm better of shooting stock with my 1.6x crop 300D @ 6.3 MP, or my 1.3x crop 1D @ 4 MP. :-/

I'm never going back to the 300D.

07/08/2005 06:02:26 PM · #5

Originally posted by kyebosh:

I'm never going back to the 300D.

Not to get off topic, but I was shooting some show jumping the other day and my 1D pics seemed to have much poorer dynamic range than my 300D. I managed to rescue some of the files in Photoshop that came out overly dark, and some of it may have been my fault (I'm very used to spot metering on the 300D and I had evaluative metering on the 1D). Maybe it's just a transitional learning curve. Have you experienced any poor results?

07/08/2005 06:10:09 PM · #6

Originally posted by PaulMdx:

Originally posted by kyebosh:
I'm never going back to the 300D.

Not to get off topic, but I was shooting some show jumping the other day and my 1D pics seemed to have much poorer dynamic range than my 300D. I managed to rescue some of the files in Photoshop that came out overly dark, and some of it may have been my fault (I'm very used to spot metering on the 300D and I had evaluative metering on the 1D). Maybe it's just a transitional learning curve. Have you experienced any poor results?

the 300D doesn't have spot metering... :confused:

and the 1D does... why don't you use it?

edit2: My poor results have been my own fault in that I didn't go through all the custom functions before going out to shoot with the camera... My macro entry is with the 1D and it's doing quite well :-)

Message edited by author 2005-07-08 18:11:38.

07/08/2005 06:16:15 PM · #7

Originally posted by kyebosh:

the 300D doesn't have spot metering... :confused:

Sorry, partial metering? Whatever it uses in Av mode, anyway..

Originally posted by kyebosh:

and the 1D does... why don't you use it?

I wanted to get used to evaluative, as I thought it'd be more use in the future.

Originally posted by kyebosh:

My macro entry is with the 1D and it's doing quite well :-)

Cool. :-)

Nikon AF Nikkor 50mm f/1.8D

07/08/2005 06:29:25 PM · #8

Originally posted by PaulMdx:

Originally posted by kyebosh:
the 300D doesn't have spot metering... :confused:

Sorry, partial metering? Whatever it uses in Av mode, anyway..

Originally posted by kyebosh:
and the 1D does... why don't you use it?

I wanted to get used to evaluative, as I thought it'd be more use in the future.

Originally posted by kyebosh:
My macro entry is with the 1D and it's doing quite well :-)

Cool. :-)

From expirienced users i've heard that partial metering (13.5%) is probably the most accurate in a lot of situations if you're not using spot. The center weighted average sounds interesting too, but i've not tried it.

deapee

Kodak V803

07/08/2005 07:10:24 PM · #9

Do they say what program they used to interpolate -- that sounds rather interesting...and maybe worth a try ... some day. Do you think Photoshop is capable (in small increments, of course) of interpolating a file to be able to be printed that large from ... say ... a 6 MP file ... with equally impressive results? Or would good results require something like genuine fractals?