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From: "dick graham"
Subject: Re: Pop Photo D Shoot-out
The ist ds2 ranked dead last in resolution behind 2 8megs ( canon d350 and
olympus 500) and 2 other 6 megs ( nikon d-50 and konica/minolta 5d?)
One needs to know whether the test lenses were of equivalent quality, and
how the image files were post processed before one can make a fair
assessment of whether or not the resolving power of the camera.
I was in Lloydminster yesterday looking at purchasing a Gretag Netprinter
with a friend.
I gave the vendor an in camera JPEG to run as a test file. They run Nikons
and Canons in their studio, and have in camera processing set on the high
side of neutral, and run the files through Noise Ninja to clean up the
resulting artifacts.
I gave them a file with the camera set to my default settings, which is
minimum contrast, saturation and sharpening, which was shot with my 31mm LTD
lens.
The guy took the file, and ran it through his post processing routine, and
made a spectacularly soft print.
While they were making snide comments about garbage Pentax equipment, I was
out reshooting the file with the camera set to it's highest settings for
sharpness, contrast and saturation.
The resulting print made their girlycam files look pretty junior.
I thought the resulting image looked overdone, but I also didn't have a lot
of use for what they were churning out.
The Netprinter turned out to be a dog, BTW.
William Robb
