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Jack,
If you have been testing these cameras, it implies you've not purchased
yet.
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Very
perceptive of you, I've not purchased a DSLR yet.
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I've heard Canon is coming out w/a large chipped, high mpxl camera @
PMA.
A camera such as the Canon 5D allows one to make medium format looking
blow-ups to 24x30
with ease, no noise and virtually no sharpening but for using their
proprietary software to enlarge.
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The
Canon 5D is out of my budget right now. I've test drove one and I've been very
impressed. I know that Dan Burkholder and Kerik Kouklis both use the 5D and
produce great work but now I'm evaluating the 10 mega-pixel
models trying to making a decision about one of those models. The 5D
view finder was a pleasure to look through and the body felt great in the
hand.
If
Canon does release the camera you speak of it sounds like it will be more
expensive than the 5D. I was hoping that Canon might have a FF model in the
$1500 price bracket ostensibly to put pressure on Nikon's D200 segment. I cannot
understand why Nikon hasn't produce a FF sensor body. Of course if they do I'm
sure it will be priced exorbitantly since they do not manufacture their on
sensors.
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If that is not the case, and through testing @ a couple of Expos, I settle
on Noise Ninja. With my own
Olympus 8080, a very good 8 mpxl advance amateur camera I regularly blow up
images to 22x28.
Admittedly they are not perfect and super sharp etc. but they do look very
good. Noise Ninja inhibits
the splotchy look in many open areas such as sky.
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I made a 12x18 print on my Epson 2200
from an exposure made with the Canon XTi exposed at ISO 1600. I was pretty
impressed especially since the lens used was the cheap 18 to 55 mm kit
lens. Things have changed a lot in the digital world over the past two years; it
appears that film cameras have but little time here on earth. That kind of
reality used to bother me but I've accepted the eventuality of the death of
film.
Call me a doom and gloomer but I think film is dead
meat in all formats, enjoy it while we can.
Don Bryant
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