I bought my Oly E-300 new way back when (which I still shoot to this day, along with 10 other ancient cameras and one new) and thought I would share interpolated files of our latest edition with the Oly e-300 and the Nikon D1H which I bought for $50 with two POS batteries - two throwbacks to the good old days when every day a new next gen lifechanging! bigger better louder announcement was made...wait, that s**t still happens...well it felt way more important with bigger implications (can it match film's resolution anyone?). So on to the critique. With PS interpolation, the Oly's 8mp jumps to a 19.4 mp file and the Nikon's 3mp (DOH) to an 11mp file and wanted to know what everyone thinks about the up-sampling and AI implications for older cameras. P.S. I am very much a buy yesterday's treasures turned junk for cheap and use old tech to create photographic challenges kinda joe verse have the cam do it for me (but I make no money on photography so easy to say). To my eyes they look pretty dern tootin' good.
Now the D1H is little grittier, but for a 3mp file, up-sampled to 11mp using a cheap AF DX lens (that AF does not stand for Auto Focus), it kicks a** and I was pretty blown away. Pros won't be tossing their mirrorless FF for this and grabbing their retro gear, but for those of us who cherish the old Kodak CCD's, it's pretty cool that you can still get much more usable files for printing. Double click to view them full size.
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Onto the dreamy, the lovely, the retro ugly Oly E-300 which holds a forever special place in my heart and will get use into the forever future, I think the results are pretty killer. This is using the Panny Leica 14-150mm which is tack tack sharp but to take that old CCD to 20mp with really usable and nice results imho, jazzed with jazz hands. AI may one day be the end of humanity (Terminator anyone?), but I'd say worth total world destruction if makes my old cams sing.
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Anyway, loved the DPR forums back in the day so much and LEARNED so much and sad to see it go, but happy to see people keeping the community going.
