"Emily L. Ferguson" <elf@cape.com> wrote/replied to: >The standard for stock is becoming a minimum 50M file. Either you >shoot film and have it scanned to that size file, or you have to >upsample your digital capture, since the new Kodak digi doesn't get >files that large. Try making your file in 48 bit colour. You will find it grows quite large. I shoot a smaller sensor (Canon 10D) file and when I make a 16 bit TIF, it comes in at about 36 meg. It wouldn't take much upsizing to make that 50 megs. >I'm a Nikon shooter, I know from beans about the Canons. But I do >hear often from both my NPPA list and my Stockphoto list that Canon >is ahead right now in the race for big size files and competitive >price. I thought the D2H was going to be Nikon's most recent entry >into the race - bigger file than the D-100 etc. But it wasn't. It's >a PJ's camera. Ya, the new Nikon is to compete with the Canon 1D, a fast shooting 4 point something MP camera. The Canon 1DS is the top of the heap right now, and although priced very high, it's causing some medium format photogs to change over. It's that good. But with large file size and high res comes slower camera writes, larger buffers, and the filling of CF cards faster too. By the way, I always shoot RAW. JPG is just too much work to get right in camera for me. Jim Davis Nature Photography http://www.kjsl.com/~jbdavis/
