Re: GIGAPIXELS LOVE THE D60 !!!

Max,

Have you compared the prints to those made from a large format view camera?
I've seen some large prints made from 8X10, and the resolution is amazing.
Also, can you detect any seams? With all those seams, does it degrade the
resolution at all (at the seams)?

"Max Lyons" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> >> Other than an obvious excercise, what was his point? According to the
> >>site,  this thing took many days to complete.
> >
> >There is no point , it's masturbation.
>
> I did it for a number of reasons as outlined on my page:
>
> 1.  The personal challenge.
> 2.  An interest in writing the software necessary to create the image.
> 3.  An interest in pushing the limits of conventional print
> sizes...doing something a little different from the rest of the crowd.
> I'm also interested in the work of photographers like Andreas Gursky.
> I suppose one might consider his massive prints to be "photographic
> masturbation".  However, there seem to be a large number of people
> willing to pay an awful lot of money for it, so my guess is that your
> assessment may not be shared by everyone.
>
> >If you want to talk about hi-res try stitching the same amount of shots
> > done with 11x14 sheet film, that's real resolution.
>
> Of course this argument can be continued for ever.  Bigger film/sensor
> sizes combined with more component images will yield ever increasing
> amounts of detail.  (However, increasing the film/sensor size by any
> given factor probably doesn't augment the resolution as much as a
> similar increase in the number of component images.)  If one gigapixel
> doesn't clear your threshold to be considered "real resolution", fair
> enough.
>
> Thanks for your insight.
>
> Max Lyons
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