Zach Matthews
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Here’s an engineer’s explanation of why the Nikon approach might be better with respect to noise (warning, it is almost unreadably dense):
http://www.danblanton.com/viewmessage.php?id=63562
Zach
Oh, and her parents are Brad and Renee Holt; the Holt and Holt Real Estate office on the old way into town from 412 is her grandparents’ office.
Zach
Hey Richard –
I am using Photoshop CS2 to convert. Usually I just drag in the files to an archive hard drive, then import them into Adobe’s Lightroom Beta program, then scan through them and drag them into Photoshop, where I adjust exposure and eventually save in JPEG.
My calculations on the D70 are that at 3000×2008 output you only have 10-inches across on a long side. I published a full page shot in the current issue of American Angler (Ed Engle’s article, facing page, misattributed to my wife, Lauren), that was 11.5 inches on a long side. Just to get that full page you are already blowing up the image from 6 2/3″ on the short side to 8 1/2″, so we’re talking about more than a 100% enlargement for the two pager. (Although I could certainly do it with a panorama if I had time to set it all up).
However your statement that you’ve sold the D2x images in two pages gives me hope, since at 12 megapixels you’re seeing at least a 25% enlargement even with that excellent camera. (Hmm, wait, on second reading, do I have that right, or are you also limited to one full page as yet?)
This is as much a problem of convincing my editors that we can break the 300dpi barrier as anything, I expect, and I also know they have good reasons for wanting to keep it as close as possible to that 300 dpi level. This is why I hope the D3(X, H, whatever) will at least carry 16MP. That would be two pages at 300dpi out of camera with room for cropping if you needed to with a minor enlargement and a ton of room to crop into a one full page image.
Zach
Hey Richard –
I lost a sale lately (“High Water” in the Photoblog) because my D70 couldn’t go double-truck and hit anything close to the 300 dpi asking range for American Angler. Do you know of any way to interpolate an image out of my camera up to 11X17 at 300dpi without looking pixelated?
Have you sold any double-truck images from your D200?
Zach
Yeah, Richard is absolutely right here; I misspoke and remembered later but I didn’t go back and correct it.
Hey Richard –
I understand what you are saying: technically the difference in saturation isn’t in when the flash is firing but in how long the shutter is open.
Whoops, my bad, the program is ‘Lightroom’ although it is an APPLE Aperture clone.
As of yet I don’t think there’s a windows version but you could always have a look around the net.
Zach
Hey Jack –
Yeah, the rod’s a St. Croix Pro Graphite and the line is a very crudded over XXD Comp (the older one that was just a longer XXD – it’s 125′).