September 6th 06, 10:09 PM
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Newbie questions about camera settings
Frank ess wrote:
That's my experience as well. I don't think that the difference
between a two megapixel image and a six megapixel image is going to
make any real difference in the sentimental value of the image.
What _will_ matter is if you have any images at all - please *back*
*up* your photos, folks... preferably with at least one copy
offsite.
Yes, that too.
Here's a little metaphor:
the first photo is the whole thing, shot in about 1938 on 116 film
in
a Kodak "Autographic";
next two are crops.
http://www.fototime.com/5E21E09C4043371/orig.jpg
http://www.fototime.com/4E0721419FCB4A2/orig.jpg
http://www.fototime.com/EAD91185898D0A3/orig.jpg
The print from which the scan was made is a contact print, the
original somewhat smaller than the whole-thing as it shows up on my
1024x768 lcd monitor.
ACK! 1280x1024. Sheesh.
Can you imagine getting such nice, independent images from an
Instamatic print? not likely. Because the original was of a nature
to
allow maintenance of detail and tone, it was relatively easy to
extract something of sentimental value, and a little more, I think.
As a comparison, here's one from an Instamatic print.
http://www.fototime.com/2C71B7806D3648B/orig.jpg
So it is with digital: always get as much information as you can;
somewhere down the line someone may benefit in ways you couldn't
imagine.
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