Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2021/06/28
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Howard, What I am seeing (on the images I've been playing with) is that Gigapixel adds quite a bit of definition to the raw file.? For example, a 2x Gigapixel image is sharper (in a good way) than the 2x Enhance file, which seems very close to the original cropped raw file..? A 4x Gigapixel viewed at 50% appears identical to the 2X Gigapixel image.? Applying Topaz Sharpen AI to the Enhance file results in "crunchy" sharpness compared to Gigapixel.? Gigapixel seems to be a better way to go, considering that you could go larger than 2x if needed.? Technology is great.? I used to lug 4x5 and 8x10 film cameras, now have a Fuji kit that fits in a small bag with four lenses, and you have taken it steps further. Ken On 6/28/2021 10:30 AM, Howard L Ritter Jr via LUG wrote: > I have two reasons for wanting to post just now. One is my recent trip to > Iceland, a maiden voyage for my new Q2. The other is the recent > availability of PS Enhance and Topaz Gigapixel AI. The two themes fit > together nicely because up-res?ing could be a key to making the single-FL, > high-Mpx Q2 even more versatile, by increasing the effective FL that can > be realized from cropping and enlarging. I speculated that > state-of-the-art up-res?ing by a factor of 2 might allow for decent prints > (or viewing on a monitor) in the 25?-wide range of down to 25% crops > (equivalent to FL 112mm). This is well past the Q?s ?digital zoom? limit > of 75mm, which of course isn?t anything but a built-in crop since it > (properly) doesn?t involve any image manipulation. > > I?ll be posting an album of images from Iceland soon, as well as my > impressions of the Q2. Here?s a first one, with a 117mm-equiv. 24% crop > presented natively, after PS Enhance, and after Gigapixel. (I was aiming > for a 25% crop, but this is where I landed.) > > I?d welcome comments on the results themselves as well as your takes on > the comparison of the two methods of up-res?ing. > > > http://www.gallery.leica-users.org/v/hlritter/Up-res+test/?g2_fromNavId=x2d271756 > > <http://www.gallery.leica-users.org/v/hlritter/Up-res+test/?g2_fromNavId=x2d271756> > > > ?howard > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information