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Site & Board Matters => Article Discussions => Topic started by: josh.reichmann on January 16, 2020, 04:36:55 pm
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https://luminous-landscape.com/street-photography-where-does-the-street-begin-and-end-part-1/
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Interesting article, Josh, but I can't help wondering what a fantastic photograph that 16th century painting by Carpaccio would have been if high resolution, 150 mp cameras had been available in those days. ;)
Imagine the dozens of crops that could be made, each one of sufficiently high resolution for a good sized print. ;D
The subject of the painting, “The Miracle of the Relic of the True Cross on the Rialto Bridge”, shows the miraculous healing of a madman in the upper left corner of the painting. Unfortunately, the resolution is rather lacking. A 150 mp digital camera might have done a better job. ;)
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and then...Carpaccio put on his eyeglasses. ;~)
Peter
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Better, but still not as good as the first 3 mp Canon D30 DSLR, with appropriate lens. ;)
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Better, but still not as good as the first 3 mp Canon D30 DSLR, with appropriate lens. ;)
But the original canvas is so big....It's betta than a 600MP sensor!
Peter
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But the original canvas is so big....It's betta than a 600MP sensor!
Peter
Nah! It's only 12 feet wide and less than 13 ft high. Divide 200 by 36, and from a 200 mp camera you get thirty six 2 ft by 2 ft photos, each about 5.5 mp. My first DSLR was the 6mp Canon 60D. Much better resolution than the larger crops you've shown. ;)
The crops showing the healing of the madman represent about 1/16th of the area of the painting.
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Nah! It's only 12 feet wide and less than 13 ft high. Divide 200 by 36, and from a 200 mp camera you get thirty six 2 ft by 2 ft photos, each about 5.5 mp. My first DSLR was the 6mp Canon 60D. Much better resolution than the larger crops you've shown. ;)
The crops showing the healing of the madman represent about 1/16th of the area of the painting.
I let you win....; )
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What do we know about the pixel resolution of Carpaccio's brush? ???
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What do we know about the pixel resolution of Carpaccio's brush? ???
Like all brushes very very very high. How could it not be? ; )
Peter
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Joke aside, my point is that more megapixels can potentially be very useful when the street scene one is shooting has a variety of activities, as in the example of the Carpaccio painting.
You get the opportunity to print the entire scene, and/or just small crops of anything interesting in the background or foreground.
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Joke aside, my point is that more megapixels can potentially be very useful when the street scene one is shooting has a variety of activities, as in the example of the Carpaccio painting.
You get the opportunity to print the entire scene, and/or just small crops of anything interesting in the background or foreground.
Of course....
I use Hi res mode with a Panasonic G9 capture for my paintings. These files are quite large but great to have my paintings archived this way.
Peter
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Of course....
I use Hi res mode with a Panasonic G9 capture for my paintings. These files are quite large but great to have my paintings archived this way.
Peter
Wow! 20mp! That's huge! :D
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Wow! 20mp! That's huge! :D
No silly X8 in camera sensor shift = 420MB files. The files blew away my Canon FF. : )
Peter
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What do we know about the pixel resolution of Carpaccio's brush? ???
You'd have to count the bristle: one bristle = one pixel. I doubt they used the hairs from a camel at that time.
Unless the paintbrush (or canvas, wood, wall etc.) has a built-in list of details...