[filmscanners] Re: Genuine fractals?????

["Myles" <dryden@mgt.gla.ac.uk>]

Date sent:              Sat, 20 Nov 2004 15:12:13 -0600
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From:                   "Laurie Solomon" <Laurie@advancenet.net>
To:                     dryden@mgt.gla.ac.uk
Subject:                [filmscanners] RE: Genuine fractals?????

> I use the program frequently; and find that for most upsampling within the
> normal ranges, it is not all that much different from Photoshop's Bicubic
> methods.  It is in the extreme ranges of upsampling that the difference may
> begin to appe      arandGFmaybegintoshine.
>
> What I do not understand is, if you are concerned with quality, why are you
> saving your digital camera captures to a Jpeg format which uses lossy
> compression and which most digital cameras will not let you save captures at
> resolutions in the 300 ppi range but tend to limit one to capturing at
> resolutions less than 300 ppi.  If it were me, I would be saving the
> captures to Tiff format files which most cameras allow to be saved at 300ppi
> resolutions.


My canon G2 digital  does not offer the tiff option but offers Raw
format which I believe can be converted to tif.Would such a conversion
give me the benefit you mention ?

 Resolutions of 72 ppi are common for web use but not for
> printing and especially not for large prints; and Jpeg format is used so
> that the user can capture on one card more images (assuming that they will
> only be used for viewing online or via monitors or will only be printed at 4
> x 6 sizes at best).
>

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