Tickla said:
What kind of camera produces the clearest prints--digital or film? That is the most important thing to me--how great my pictures look on paper. I like them sharp, good color and not blurry--can I get that from a digital p&s--like Canon's Powershot SD600 Elph?? Anyone know?
i don't know about the elph.. i know the powershot a600 series ( what ever the other numbers were600, 610 something like that) has the same sensor as the s2 IS and the pics i have seen on here look good as do daughter's who has that camera...now if you enlarged them to billboard size i don't know but how often does anyone do that
i recently read( and think it's probably so) that in
general digital is a little less sharp than film but you can fix that with photo shop like editing programs( one usually comes with a digital camera).in that particular article i read the guy always does a 20/60 sharpening off the bat..I've been doing that and it seems most times i don't usually have to sharpen much after that . it just kind of neatens it up...anyway, digital is way closer to film than it used to be as far as that goes. they are nothing like the old 2 mp things that look like someone run them through a smudge machine
just as a disclaimer i
thought you were supposed to sharpen last but that's the way he does it and i haven't had anything looking weird like i thought it might, well at least not any weirder than it looks already
i just think the b&w looks "different" but i can't really put my finger on what makes it so... maybe i could fix it if i could figure that out...
maybe
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groucho can't you type slower, I'm always like 3 mins. behind your posts ...probably cause i misspell so much and have to change it...
i have alienskin(s) that some one kindly gave me( who no longer posts on here) and virtual photographer both of which i like but they still look different... i just read you can buy special ink cartridges that have more black colors ( like black, not so black, kind of black, hint of black evidently) but i think you have to have more than 2 cartridges and i only have 2 in my printer.. i might take them into an in house developing place and just see if they look different...not that they are museum quality or anything to start with but just one more thing to obsess about

but as my husband says..."you could just use a disposable camera and be done with it but you don't want to so that's OK too"( when he said he doesn't mind buying me yet
another lens, just not the $2000+ one, poor guy never knew what he started when he bought the camera

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