[filmscanners] Re: Compact Cameras

2005-04-24 Thread David J. Littleboy
From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> So my question is this: have digital compacts reached the stage yet where they can give film compacts like the XA a run for their money on image quality? I'd be interested in hearing any experiences list members may have on this. < The small-sensor ca

[filmscanners] Re: Compact Cameras

2005-04-24 Thread Dieder Bylsma
>So my question is this: have digital compacts reached the stage yet where >they can give film compacts like the XA a run for their money on image >quality? I'd be interested in hearing any experiences list members may have >on this. As far as I can tell, for pixel counts, yeah, they can. 8.2 MP

[filmscanners] RE: Compact Cameras

2005-04-24 Thread LAURIE SOLOMON
While I do not usually engage in this sort of comparative reviewing of products nor in the recommending of them, I will make two general observations from my experiences, which need to be taken with a grain of salt since they entail my biases and preferences. First, even at today's stage in techno

[filmscanners] Re: Compact Cameras

2005-04-24 Thread
You should check out the PeizographyBW Black and White inkjet printing system from Jon Cone (and inkjetmall.com). It is really amazing. No bronzing, no metemerism, no fading, rich deep black and long tonal scale. It is really, really very good. LAURIE SOLOMON wrote: > > >First, even at today

[filmscanners] RE: Compact Cameras

2005-04-24 Thread Laurie Solomon
day, April 24, 2005 2:21 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [filmscanners] Re: Compact Cameras > > You should check out the PeizographyBW Black and White inkjet printing > system from Jon Cone (and inkjetmall.com). It is really amazing. No > bronzing, no metemerism, no fading, ric

[filmscanners] Re: Compact Cameras

2005-04-24 Thread
IL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of >>[EMAIL PROTECTED] >>Sent: Sunday, April 24, 2005 2:21 PM >>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>Subject: [filmscanners] Re: Compact Cameras >> >>You should check out the PeizographyBW Black and White inkjet printing >>system from Jon Cone (a

[filmscanners] RE: Compact Cameras

2005-04-24 Thread Austin Franklin
Hi Laurie, > I am familiar with it and have heard good things about it from users; BUT > that is one of the sorts of things that I consider as the EXTRA WORK > required to remedy the issues I am speaking of. :-) It's not an issue if you do a couple of things...as you touch on... > First, I belie

[filmscanners] RE: Compact Cameras

2005-04-24 Thread Austin Franklin
> You should check out the PeizographyBW Black and White inkjet printing > system from Jon Cone (and inkjetmall.com). It is really amazing. No > bronzing, no metemerism, no fading, rich deep black and long tonal > scale. It is really, really very good. Hi Lotusm50, Do you have the original,

[filmscanners] RE: Compact Cameras

2005-04-24 Thread LAURIE SOLOMON
t they tend to be on the extremes and not the run of the mill colors). Original Message From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, April 24, 2005 4:44 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [filmscanners] Re: Compact Cameras > I think the

[filmscanners] RE: Compact Cameras

2005-04-24 Thread LAURIE SOLOMON
I have no dispute with anything you have said below. Original Message From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Austin Franklin Sent: Sunday, April 24, 2005 7:10 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [filmscanners] RE: Compact Cameras > Hi Laurie, > >> I am f

[filmscanners] Re: Compact Cameras

2005-04-24 Thread David J. Littleboy
From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> I'm waiting for some company to release a really capable small digicam with a decent APS sensor, a truly superb lens (maybe a prime in the 40mm equiv. range) and I guess some kind of deluxe EVF. Optical RF based VF is probably hoping for too much :-) I imagin

[filmscanners] Re: Compact Cameras

2005-04-24 Thread
d, the size >of the enlargement that can be made, or the resulting prints (there are >some colors that digital does not do as good a job at capturing as film >does; but they tend to be on the extremes and not the run of the mill >colors). > >Original Message >From:

[filmscanners] Re: Compact Cameras

2005-04-24 Thread
I had the original plug-in system, but I now have the current ICC system. Austin Franklin wrote: >>You should check out the PeizographyBW Black and White inkjet printing >>system from Jon Cone (and inkjetmall.com). It is really amazing. No >>bronzing, no metemerism, no fading, rich deep black

[filmscanners] RE: Compact Cameras

2005-04-24 Thread LAURIE SOLOMON
erstanding. Original Message From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, April 24, 2005 7:47 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [filmscanners] Re: Compact Cameras > As for bronzing, just print matte papers and it's a non > issue. I ha

[filmscanners] RE: Compact Cameras

2005-04-24 Thread LAURIE SOLOMON
L PROTECTED] Subject: [filmscanners] Re: Compact Cameras > The next time I'm at the photo lab (which also has a print > service), I'm going to pick their brain regarding RIPs versus > just using the print driver. It seems to me that software is > software, i.e. the RIP is just d

[filmscanners] Re: Compact Cameras

2005-04-25 Thread
ve no objection to. I am responding >just clarify what I was trying to say so that there would be no >misunderstanding. > > >Original Message >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of >[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: Sunday, April 24, 2005 7:47 PM >

[filmscanners] Re: Compact Cameras

2005-04-25 Thread
matrix used in the halftone cells. >But I could be wrong about this. Moreover, I believe that many quality >service bureaus and labs as well as printers employ RIPs. > >Original Message >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of >[EMAIL PROTECTED] &g

[filmscanners] RE: Compact Cameras

2005-04-25 Thread
> Hi, > > I know this question has been asked in the past (and slightly > off-topic) but times change so I'd thought I'd raise it again. > > I recently read an article about a photographer who started > out with digital (Fujifilm S2 Pro) but then switched to > medium format for colour and to an Oly

[filmscanners] Re: Compact Cameras

2005-04-25 Thread Berry Ives
I work mostly in color, but I am interested to know where I might find a comparison of Epson 2200 B&W with Quadtone B&W. I read a review once that thought very highly of the 2200 B&W. Does anyone think it would be worthwhile to set up my old 1160 with Quadtone, rather than simply use the 2200? L

[filmscanners] Re: Compact Cameras

2005-04-25 Thread Berry Ives
My brother has the old XA, for many years now, and the Canon 350D, at about 30 oz with lens, must be about 4x the mass, and it isn't going to fit in anybody's shirt pocket. Berry On 4/25/05 7:34 AM, "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > David J. Littleboy wrote > >> The small-