RE: Quality of prints from digital files on photo paper

["Xiong, Zonghou" <Zonghou.Xiong@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I think it is important to say the advantages of digital photography are 
digital manipulations on a computer.  You achieve this either by
film+scanner
or by a digital camera.  Having seen a few local people struggling selling
fine
art photos using digital cameras,  I wouldn't recommend this option.  The 
advantage of digital cameras is speed, not image quality. One photo
journalist
I met thought everybody was using Nikon D1 at the Olympics.  However, for
fine
art prints, a cheap point & shoot plus a consumer scanner would beat D1.

Zonghou Xiong

-----Original Message-----
From: Robert Erickson [mailto:cirkut8@xxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Thursday, October 19, 2000 12:47 AM
To: panorama-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: RE: Quality of prints from digital files on photo paper


The quality of MY digital 5 foot print is vastly
superior to one from film in many ways. 

I shoot a Nikon Coolpix 950, todays street price is
about $600. It's ho hum two mega pixel output will
produce an 8x10 that is IMHO equal in quality to one
produced from film. By stitching a dozen or so
together I get an 10 inch x 5 FOOT that is equal in
quality to an 8x10 from film. 

My material cost for taking the image is determined by
the electricty used to charge the camera batteries and
run my computer. I can show my client a stitched
sample and even print a photo quality inkjet print
while still on location. If they want a 5 footer the
prints are... razor sharp corner to corner, color
corrected, contrast enhanced, custom dodged & burned,
sharpened where I want sharp, blurred where I want
blur, lighten the subject, darken the background, my
copyright printed in the corner along with my
signature in gold, dated, with reorder number and my
website printed in my choice of font, color, and size.
All this delivered directly to the customer for under
$30. 

My original files are backed up to to CD ROM and to
other hard drive. It is impossiable to make a perfect
backup of a negative. They are time and date stamped
automatically. I always save the final image with the
subject name as the file name. I can instantly sort
ALL of my images by subject, date, or size at will
with a click. Want to see what a file looks like?
Click on it. The new Windows Millennium comes with an
automatic thumbnail and image viewer. These are
features lacking with PhotoShop alone.

BTY: With an other click of the mouse I can create a
VR webpage with the image spinning around ready to be
uploaded to the internet or published on CD ROM.

How is the quality? Absolutly freaking FANTASTIC!

http://panoramicnetwork.bizland.com
aka http://gateway.to/prints

:-)
Bob










--- Alan Zinn <azinn@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> At 07:11 AM 10/17/2000 -0700, you wrote:
> >Some humor for the group... 
> 
> 
> >shooting an assignment is down to 50 cents for the
> >blank CD ROM. 
> 
> Bob,
> 
> You're paying fifty cents for a CD disk!! when they
> can be had for $.39 ? :-)
> 
> What kind of quality are the five foot print's? 
> 
> AZ
> 
> 
> Need a print on photographic paper? Go
> >to http://gateway.to/prints for 12 inch by 5 foot
> >panorama from your digital files delivered to your
> >customer for under $30. 
> >
> >How much do you pay for film, proofing, and
> printing?
> >
> >:-)
> >Bob Erickson
> >
> >
> >
> >
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