Re: butterflies

In article <VGrSp.58503$F25.15535@xxxxxxxxxxxx>, starchild1124
@charter.net says...

"mike fee" <m.fee@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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In article <tr2h1759a5v2kc5b618jo330s2hucq0cel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Voi@xxxxxxx says...
On Sat, 9 Jul 2011 13:08:16 -0400, "Carrie" <starchild1124@xxxxxxxxxxx>
scribbled:

Some of my kids get Kodak EasyShare
cameras (around the $200 range) and doesn't seem like they can be
enlarged
very much. I think Kodak is a 'known" brand, but I have come to believe
it's
not that great.

You should never enlarge any pictures. You can't add material that's not
there. ...


Now that _is_ funny. Voivod appears to believe that photographs taken on
a 35mm camera should remain at 35x24 mm, and presumably has some
misguided viewpoint regarding the dimensions of digital images.

Tell me voivod, how big is the picture taken by a digital camera, so I
can avoid the crime of enlarging it?


You can enlarge pictures that are high resolution. Though I mainly
reduce mine, because most of the time I put them online or share them. And
to a point, you can add something that's not there. Enhance what there is.

Yes, I quite agree - you can sometimes 'rescue' a low-resolution image
by careful up-scaling, as long as you accept that something artificial
may have been added to the image. But the best way to get good pictures
of small things like butterflies is to fill as much of the frame as is
possible to start with - and that is most easily done with a nice macro-
lens (along with a fair bit of patience) and fairly bright sunlight so
you can ensure a reasonable depth of field. Have you considered
upgrading to such a lens (assuming you don't already have one)? An
enthusiast-grade third-party lens like a Sigma shouldn't break the bank,
but if budget is a constraint you can do OK with a set of close-up
lenses that screw on top the end of a standard lens (a bit like a
filter).

Mike
.

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