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Subject: [OM] Re: PMA, C-8080Z, Epson 2200, and miscellaneous ramblings...
From: Stephen Scharf <scharfsj@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2004 20:50:24 -0800
Notes from PMA: The new D-580Z looks like the cool little Digital 
Stylus series.  I guess most you saw the announcement of the C-8080Z 
today at PMA. It will be interesting to see how this camera stacks up 
to the Sony F828 and the new C*n*n Pro1. The C-8080 also looks quite 
large in the hand compared to the C*n*n.  My concern for all of these 
cameras is what the noise levels will be like with 8 megapixels in 
the sensor size used (2/3"). The Minolta A1 have been discussed here 
at some length, but I've always found Minolta's form factor to be 
rather cluttered-looking. The Z1 looks downright weird. Also, I'm not 
a big fan of electronic viewfinders at all, and this makes me wonder 
what I will think of the new Oly and Canon Pro 1. Certainly from the 
photos I've seen from the Pro1, noise looks like a concern. Looks 
like Oly has a new little printer that looks to be some sort of dye 
sub for 4X6 prints...if so, that looks pretty cool. To my mind, the 
coolest all-in-one new digital I've seen to date has been the C-5060Z.

  C*n*n just released some full-res photos from their new 1D Mark 
II....I  downloaded them, and when I first opened one of them on the 
monitor, all I could say was "Ohmig*d!" I upsampled them and printed 
them out of my Epson 2200 and they look absolutely gorgeous. The 
rendition of skin tones and the subtleties of detail are just 
STUNNING. WOW! There is no "digital look" to these photos, they look 
like medium format, slow slide film, like they were shot on a 'Blad 
with Provia 100. Really, really impressive. If any of you have a good 
printer and want to download them, go to this link and do a "download 
link to disk"...

http://www.canon.co.jp/Imaging/eos1dm2/eos1dm2_sample-e.html

Use your Fred's SI action to upsample them and print them out. I 
printed the one of the bride with no sharpening at all it looks 
absolutely beautiful.

For those of you using the Epson 2200, Epson just released new 
profiles for all of their papers, with two profiles per paper, one 
for 1440 and one for 2880. These new profiles are modeled after the 
Atkinson profiles and look really, really nice.

http://www.epson.com/cgi-bin/Store/EditorialAnnouncement.jsp?BV_UseBVCookie=yes&oid=42114986

On another note, Lexar just released 80X CF cards....man, it just 
keeps getting better and better!

-Stephen.




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