Rev cannot open my jpeg ! - and some serious thinking

[François Chaplais]

Le 27 juin 09 à 18:45, Francis Nugent Dixon a écrit :

> Hi from Paris,
>
> I bought a  Sony-DSC-F717 a couple of years back - went into my list  
> of "Best-Spent Money" items - gives beautiful photos of 5 Megapixels  
> (I never change the setting).
> The photos each represent about 2 MB, and with that, I can print out  
> a high quality photo on A4, reasonable quality on A3. My close-up  
> photos of flowers would make many photographers green with envy.  
> What I mean is that a 5 megapixel/2 MB photo is enough for me, and I  
> am a stickler for quality. I have many Rev stacks that display  
> hundreds of jpg photos, and so I had to scale down my photos for  
> rapid display and reduced disk space.
>
> I use GraphicConvertor (Mac) - also on my "Best-Spent Money" list.  
> You can batch scale-down a complete folder, to the size of photos  
> you want.
>
> Just in case I ever want higher quality (and I have more than 30  
> years of 35mm negatives to examine), I also have a Nikon DiMage 35mm  
> scanner, and I CAN scan the negatives up to 100Mb files (what for, I  
> will never know !)
>
> I scan my BEST colour negatives to about 20 MB, and I CAN print them  
> up to 1.5 metres x 1 metre posters - much more than the average Yogi  
> Bear requirements.
>
> The latest cameras are providing more than 15 Megapxels, and  
> technology will take us much higher within a very short time ! I'm  
> not sure what that represents in MB, but it certainly is a lot. I'm  
> also unsure of the need for cameras of this quality for the average  
> user.
>
> Unless you are a professional, you don't need photos of this  
> quality, so why take them ?

If the optics are up to the task, the the Hi Res eliminates any need  
for zooming; you do the editing on the computer.

François, who used to develop his argentic photos in the 70's and  
remembers these high grain, 400 ASA Ilford films...