POTATOES, LAMPBLACK AND TWO TAXI - CABS.I had hoped to come back to this subject long before now, but other projects and a slow down on the technology front connived to postpone attempts to tackle any remaining issues.
To sum up briefly, it is reasonably clear from reproductions seen in mechanical print to date that derivatives of the compact digital camera models discussed previously, i.e. Ricoh GRII, GX200 and
Panasonic LX3 (aka
Leica D-Lux 4) are all capable of producing excellent image file quality for repro to a moderate size.
In particular, the LX3 with built in firmware for the correction of lens distortion, chromatic and spherical aberration, does an excellent job, only let down by comparison with the other two, by its weaker ergonomic features. In that department, both
Ricoh cameras stand head and shoulders above the rest as well as, the Sigma DP1 which I will come to shortly.
REPRO QUALITYI have mentioned in a previous post that when my own history of reproductions is analysed, by far the highest number appear on the page at up to half page size - roughly A5 or, as is often the case these days, a lot smaller. The reasons for this are numerous but a general observation often points toward the page layout person having to grapple with the compromise of balancing headlines, standfirsts and text on the page. The latter has to go in, a picture doesn't and if...
