Originally posted by Ira "Correct, Johnny. And now you can go home early for the Easter vacation."
What a strange Easter feed it will be. A mix of Northern California atheists and Baptists, Southern California pagans, and Guatemalan Catholics, served in a suburban house between two prisons, in heavy fog. I'm responsible for vegetables for 16. No bunny stew -- in fact, I have to keep track of who can't eat dairy, nuts, fungi, onions/garlic, etc. Nikon and Canon P&S's will abound, once we're past the surveillance cams.
Originally posted by slinco For me higher resolution is important. Being able to crop deeply is a wonderful luxury. And if you do much perspective correction the more pixels the better (I've been shooting a lot of buildings lately). I print often at 11X17 and you DO notice a difference.
The at-home standard in my youth was Verichrome Pan in a Minolta TLR. Crop a 6x6 neg and still enlarge a print to 2x3 feet. Those who don't print just don't grok resolution.
This interesting article notes that printing in digital MF, there are noticeable differences between high end DSLRs and medium format backs.
Quote: Also, printer technology is not standing still. The files from my old Nikon D100 (6mp) look better printed on an 8 year old printer than on todays higher resolving printers. The same thing will happen will happen in the future.
I guess the only options are print smaller, or print on bumpy paper.
Now, an observation: I'm more willing to tolerate grainier, noisier, lower-res images in monochrome than in color. Maybe my brain's conditioned from seeing Tri-X-pushed-to-6400 dramatic shots, and crisp grainless Kodachrome transfers. But grainless images, color or mono, seem to accentuate texture, and grainier shots are more about shape -- and color grain/noise distracts us from shape, because we're expecting to see the colorful sharpness and texture our eyes deliver when viewing the world.
So if I'm going to use a less-than-perfect lens at higher-than-minimal ISO, I'll switch the Custom Image to B&W, even though I'm shooting strictly RAW. It's almost like going from a McLuhanistic 'hot' medium (high resolution, see every detail) to a 'cool' medium (NTSC-TV resolution, unconscious fills in the details).