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Originally Posted by Stephen
Don I too came from a world of film, using 6x6 a lot of the time, however I used mainly ISO400 film. I'm a real world photographer  and I knew that medium format images printed to the sizes that most customers demanded were fine on such film. No one was ever going to tell the difference at say 7x5 or 10x8 ISO400 gave me the flexibility I needed to fulfil most work. If I was using transparency film on a brochure shoot then ISO 100 would have likely been used. In the studio too 100 was the norm. However being a real world photographer I knew that 99% of the time no one needed the quality afforded by MF and fine grain films. Doing product photography, which I rarely do however, and it may be a different case. |
Stephen,
Just to get the real world photograher part behind us - my experience and hence choice of film was quite different from yours. I worked in manufacturing, and other than standard products we made ' specials '. As it was never known if a repeat order would be forthcoming for a special they were photographed in detail ( Tech Pan B&W for its resolution ) and ISO 100 in colour. This was far more effecient than creating a set of drawings and method sheets for something that might never be produced again. For product shots ISO 50 was used as the competition was using 5 x 4. I am not a ' real world ' photographer now and have gone digital as an affordable option to keep photography as an interest. My view of images in digital is quite naturally tainted by my years of film involvement but I am not a pixel counter. If, as in yesterdays example, an image is put up for comparison I will look at it with high magnification but I would not otherwise.
Now with that behind us.
It is from people such as yourself that I hope to learn more of the digital world. I have found so much conflicting information on the net and I hope we can do better than that here.
It seems there is a lot to catch up on from today which I will now do. My version of Nikon Capture will not allow the same degree of interpolation. Save as JPG ( various compression levels ), NEF 8bit or TIFF 16bit only. Tried several times and ways of getting a screen capture but each time the Tool Boxes vanish so I've given up for now but I can take a pic later if it is any use.
Don