RE: Pop Photo reviews Optio S

2003-07-15 Thread Doug Franklin
On Sat, 12 Jul 2003 11:44:10 -0400, tom wrote: Is this something the Frontier operator could control? Yes. Is the control easy enough that I could ask them to reduce these effects just on my film, like special processing? Yes, assuming they know how to operate it. On Sat, 12 Jul 2003

Re: Pop Photo reviews Optio S

2003-07-12 Thread Alan Chan
There's a short, 1 page review of the Optio S in the latest Pop Photo. Appears they think it's a much better camera for the money than the Contax T VS. Most interesting to me was the following: I always think the price/performance ratio is rather subjective and never make much sense. They are

Re: Pop Photo reviews Optio S

2003-07-12 Thread Bill Owens
In enlargements up to 5x7 I cannot tell the difference between Optio S prints and normal minilab prints that Joe Sixpack is more than happy with. Bill So far all the Pentax digital samples I have seen don't look very sharp. Is there any practical reason to this? Or are Pentax simply lag

Re: Pop Photo reviews Optio S

2003-07-12 Thread Anthony Farr
Just a guess, perhaps the other brand cameras apply more sharpening when the original file is being generated. If you don't like the look of sharpening, but it's already been applied, there's nothing you can do to get rid of it. It's easy to add more sharpening in editing, though, and you get to

Re: Pop Photo reviews Optio S

2003-07-12 Thread Doug Franklin
On Sat, 12 Jul 2003 20:32:03 +1000, Anthony Farr wrote: [...] perhaps the other brand cameras apply more sharpening when the original file is being generated. [...] That brings up a question I've had for a couple of months now. My primary lab recently got a Frontier machine. When they did,