Re: Sen. Barack Obama:

"Just Judy" <SpamFreeJudy@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:5l0f541gur7uiteglsqpqv43iadmmo9dkh@xxxxxxxxxx
On Mon, 16 Jun 2008 22:33:47 GMT, Dave Head <rally2xs@xxxxxxx> wrote:

[digitizing old slide photos]

Now I'm collecting tons of files of photos I take digitally. I've recently
acquired the desire for a rumored 24 megapixel Nikon D3 camera, and hopefully
can get some $$$ ahead to buy it eventually - it is about $4K. I could make it
easier if I were to trade or sell my current D1x, but... naw, I want 2 digital
camera bodies if I buy another camera. Easier to have access to 2 lenses by
having each lens on a separate camera.

I've never had a scanner, but I have taken digital photos of
print photos and am amazed at how well most of them turn out, certainly
good enough to run on my screensaver/slideshow.

You have a more discerning eye than me. Five or six megapixels
is exactly what I'll be looking for when I purchase a replacement
camera rsn.

I want to be able to magnify small parts of the picture, and when I do with 5
Mp, there's little jaggies. Well, maybe not with 24 Mp. I looked it up on the
net, and 24 Mp is supposedly better than film for a 35 mm camera. Not sure
what format camera the 50 Mp I read about before was keyed to.

Aha, it's that enlargement capability that you're after. I'd
heard that unless interested in enlarging photos, a 5-megapixel should
be satisfactory.

I'm curious, will you explain the type of photo that you would
wish to magnify small parts of the pic? (Shuddup, Wally <g>)
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If I may jump in here, Judy, I've handled thousands of photos (for the TV station) over the past couple of years. We started with 3.5 megapixel Kodak. We now have 12 megapixel Cannons.

You need to think about how your photos are going to be viewed, in the future, and the fact is, 99% of the time, it'll be on a TV set. The vast majority of digital pictures are never transferred to paper. They are stored on DVD's, and viewed directly from the DVD's.

Well, this opens up many new opportunities.

1, It's the very rare shot that is dead-bang perfect right out of the camera. Modern processing software can fix many minor imperfections.....usually automatically. Camera-bugs use to take dozens of pictures, just to get the one or two really good shots. Now, that percentage is driven way up. Processing can take that almost perfect shot and make it perfect.

2. With lot of pixels at your disposal, the most common technique is not actually "blow up" a picture, but to CUT the field of the picture, (zoom in) But, this zooming in technique means that the more pixels, the better. In other words, an average distance shot can become a close up, if there is enough pixels to keep the sharpness intact. Or perhaps, its a minor adjustment...say to center your subject in the picture.

3. Pictures now "move". Imagine a picture of three of your nieces standing essentially in a row. The opening shot is all three girls...then the "camera" slowly moves in to a portrait position on the first, then slides to the second and then the third. And then it pulls back to the original position. If you have enough pixels, you've taken a single picture and essentially made it a 10 second video. Certainly not all, but most even relatively cheap software comes with "presentation" function to create, what are essentially videos, using nothing but still shots.

Top line video processing software, will handle still shots, almost as well as standalone still processing software. After all, a video is nothing more than that a bunch of individual pictures strung together. In fact, good video processing software and good presentation creation software are very similar animals, indeed.

(My daughter just finished a large project for a lady in town. She took hundreds of old pictures, (a few new pictures), scanned them into her computer, and then created a single still-picture video album, of a young lady. The DVD was presented to the subject of the video album on her 18th Birthday. From baby shots all the way through to just before the birthday. It was a resounding success!)

BTW. One of the real pluses with this software is that almost invariable, in the creation of the "digital photo albums", or presentations or whatever they're called, music can be added to enhance the effect.

(Using this, for instance, when my granddaughter, now 16, went to her first prom, there were hundreds of pictures taken, and throwing every trick in the book at it, I ended up with a 12 minute video-album. The opening song was Travis Tritt's T-R-O-U-B-L-E.....

Imagine a stunning 16-year-old, in her first strapless dress, and "Mercy, look what just walked through the door."

BTW, EVERYTHING can be changed, if need be.

4. Information can be added. Take a single picture, and set the viewing time for ten seconds. Now, imagine a message that shows up for five seconds....saying, "This is Aunt Mable at her daughter's wedding, on April 1st, 1998."

5. There is LOTS of information included, but rarely viewed, in digital picture files. Not the least of which is the date the picture was taken, *if* the date is set right on the camera.

4. Paper backed picture albums are obsolete.

BTW, modern scanners, like Epson, usually come with built-in software that will automatically enhance and clean up old pictures.

My suggestion. Buy the best lens you can afford. And buy pixels. BTW. Four or five years ago, I would have had exactly the same attitude you have.

James...
Still learning.

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