Yep I'm well
aware of this. That's why I went to the Mamiya. But the new chips and
the new 16 bit converters etc as well as the new BS in the advertising
leads me to believe that I can get away with a 24x36 chip.
When it comes to these things it isn't the facts that motivate us.
The client might say "I want a 30 Megapixel image" It's no use telling
him about the diameter of the Photo-sites, that most of it is
interpolated in the de-mosaicking and actually megapixels are the area,
not the linear resolution and that the image is going to be used at 6
inches square at 240 DPI so he only needs a 2 megapixel JPEG..... He'll
just go to another photographer that isn't so full of it and can give
him what he wants!
Then he takes it into illustrator and resizes it to fit. Exports it to
PS, sharpens it till it bleeds.... crops it skew, fiddles with curves
so that the shadows block up..
The prints it in the local glossy magazine that specializes in adding
20 Green to all images.
I only do it for the money!
Herschel
editor@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
Nyquist
for a full frame sensor is approx 16Mp -- thus "in theory" the 24Mp is
somewhat "wasted"
After all, 16Mp was what Canon initially used at their "high end" value
-- and with good reason!
My feeling: if you cannot get a ROI on your investment you should hold
off.
M
-----Original Message-----
From: Herschel [mailto:herschel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Friday, March 6, 2009 01:53 AM
To: 'List for Photo/Imaging Educators - Professionals -
Students'
Subject: talk me out of it
I am about to spend my life savings and my children's
inheritance on a
Nikon D3X. Just to keep up with the Jones's who are in opposition to me
here.
I have a Mamiya ZD back on a 645AF but it's way too slow for me when it
comes to shooting people. Also I don't have a range of lenses for the
Mamiya.
I want something that will recycle as fast as the studio flash packs so
I can shoot around 1-1.5 fps for about four or five frames ...at least
plus I want to do interiors etc.,
I just can't justify the price of a new Hasselblad and the new ZD back,
which is apparently a little faster, is also $7500.
Actually I can't really justify the D3X and at around $1000 a day which
is what I charge now, it would take 8 full days of shooting... in a bad
month that could be 2 months of work, to pay for it - In any case most
of those jobs could easily be done with the D3 I already have.
Should I be sneaky and just Up-res the D3 images to 25MP?
Please give me some sensible reasons to not buy this thing which calls
me from the depths of B'nH and whispers my name...
Herschel
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