[Closed] What does a 100 megapixel picture look like?

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And [url= https://www.phaseone.com/~/media/NEW_WEB/P1000/Gallery/Alexia/Phase-one-100MP-alexia-sinclair-image1.ashx ]this[/url]

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Why is the file size significant? I don't know what the point you're making is?

Maybe you could word your post a bit more informatively? 🙂

More detailed than a 25Mp pic, but les than a 200Mp pic.

Looks the same as a 1080p image on my screen.

Are they 100 megapixel images?

I think a 10 megapixel camera puts out an image around 3872 x 2592 and these are all smaller than that. So while they may have been taken on a 100MP camera I think these images have been massively scaled.

I clicked on it but can't believe what happened next.

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I clicked on it but can't believe what happened next.

You had a feeling of immense disappointment?

I don't think they are the source files - definitely not 100mp.

139 megapixel if you can be bothered downloading 😉

[url= https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3790/11372405386_025511fe8f_k.jp g" target="_blank">https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3790/11372405386_025511fe8f_k.jp g"/> [/img][/url][url= https://flic.kr/p/ijWxUW ]Glencoe[/url] by [url= https://www.flickr.com/photos/jondouglas/ ]Alanach[/url], on Flickr

Downloaded the image, 2.5mb and 2361x3000 resolution. Download looks identical to the link.

[b]jad[/b], your Flickr link appears to be at full res so we don't get any choice about downloading the 78MB file 😉 Want to link to the 640px wide version instead?

He's not linked the full image vinnyeh.

This is all very exciting.

It's more how much you can zoom in without loosing details.. Check this 45 gigapixel shot [url= http://gigapan.com/gigapans/48492 ]Crazy pic[/url]

ignore

There's no pleasing some people 🙄

I should have been more specific. A picture taken with a 100mp cutting edge medium format sensor, with 15 stops of dynamic range, 16 bit colour, the very best optics, a professional photographer behind the lens and the most dramatic views nature has to offer.

None of the technical data really matters. If the drama, scale, colour depth and scale (did I mention the scale?) of the images doesn't move you there's nothing that will.

Oooh a building site.

I think I'm with you on the quality of the photographs, each of which is awesome. You can tell they were taken on an awesome camera, with an even more awesome lens.
However great the image is, it will always be let down by the quality of the screen you are viewing the picture on. We generally view on a laptop which will always negate the work done by the sensor and lens.
I'm always a fan of the landscape shot, and would love to see these printed to a good size by a good printer on good paper.

100mp from a single sensor is pretty impressive, up until now I've only seem 100mp examples which are stitched together from multiple lower resolution photo's.

I imagine it would make a rather large print if you printed it at 300dpi

100mp cutting edge medium format sensor

The one in the new Phase One XF.

To be clear the resolution is moot. It's the dynamic range and the colour depth that I felt most impressive.

What geetee is referring to:

https://www.phaseone.com/en/Products/Camera-Systems/XF100MP.aspx

EDIT: The Phase One website lets you download a "full resolution TIFF sample" which is a 700MB zip file. I can't be bothered downloading it, but I'm sure it's amazing.

Well it's not true 16 bit, never has been. Manufacturers used that as a marketing tool when the last 2 bits were unusable noise floor, it's more like 14 amplified to 16.
To work by Sony though, they do have the lead over dalsa/canon/aptina etc and this will probably see the death of CCD for medium format digital

Phase One produce some interesting editing software. Perhaps an alternative to Lightroom.
Anyone used it?

Used it for years to tether and process files, far better image quality than the Adobe processing engine used in CS/Lightroom, no idea how it fares as an image database/library management system though.

Anyone used it?

I also use it and have done for about three years. They are on release version nine now and it's a more stable product than earlier versions and now does a much better job of being a catalogue and database. The processing engine did just seem to be better than Lightroom when I trialled them (extensively) before deciding which package to go with. It is much more expensive though than Lightroom.

They also now have a version specifically for Sony cameras, which I guess is the result of their partnership with Sony on developing the new sensors.

By the way, I just read that that new 100mp camera costs $49,000!

$49,000. I assume lenses are extra!
Think I'll have a play with their Software. It's unfortunate that it's not compatible with the Nik programs.

It's unfortunate that it's not compatible with the Nik programs.

I guess you mean Nikon software? I don't know anything about what Nikon cameras now ship with but I guess the question would be what would you want to still use the bundled Nikon software for if you were also going to use Capture One?

It's unfortunate that it's not compatible with the Nik programs.
I guess you mean Nikon software?

Assume Nik Software (Snapseed, Silver Efex etc) ie Google?

Having a lot of fun zooming that Dubai pic. It's like Where's Wally yet set self the task of finding a sight of any living person. Oooh, builders in builders hats...huzza..!

Assume Nik Software (Snapseed, Silver Efex etc) ie Google?

Ah OK so then ignore my question. It's irrelevant.

Ah OK so then ignore my question. It's irrelevant.

No wasn't! I *literally* meant Google ie Google are now the parent company of Nik Software! Can see now how my response may have read tho 😳

I will say that Silver Efex Pro produces some stunning monochrome if have patience. My old AMD could barely run it yet I persisted - the joys of deferred gratification!

I didn't know that Silver Efex was a) produced by Nik Software (I thought the reference was to Nikon software bundled with a camera for RAW conversion) and b) that it only worked as a plug-in to Lightroom or Photoshop.

I've seen quite a few references to it around the web but never really explored it. Obviously I can't download a trial copy (because I don't run either lightroom or photoshop) but it looks like most of the things it offers could easily be replicated in Capture One, it would just be a matter of knowing what the tools actually do rather than knowing the effect they have.

I also sometimes use DxO Film Pack which is a library of pre-set film emulators which does the part Silver Efex does that Capture One doesn't. But I'm using it less and less these days. I find that many of the emulators end up with over-processed looking images and once you've learned how to achieve a specific 'look' offered by one of the emulators, it's again quite easy to replicate this in any processing suite.

Phase One produce some interesting editing software. Perhaps an alternative to Lightroom.
Anyone used it?

I used a free version I got with my Leica around 2009/10, upgraded on a deal a few months afterwards and had been using it since. I liked it, but only from a hobby point of view. Unfortunately it wouldn't support the RAW files from my latest camera so don't use it any longer, gifted the Leica to someone on here last year.

Unfortunately it wouldn't support the RAW files from my latest camera so don't use it any longer

Out of interest, which camera is that and is that still the case or have they caught up?

gifted the Leica to someone on here last year.

You [i]gifted?[/i] What exactly does that mean? I perhaps shouldn't ask as it would be lovely to own a Leica at some point (even if some of the models are a bit limited).

Sorry I should have said Nik Software. Color Efex Pro, Silver Efex Pro etc..
I find them really useful. My general process is to import Raw files into Aperture, do any cropping or straightening then move them over to Nik.
I agree that they can look 'over processed' but you have to be careful not to over do it.
With the demise of Aperture I need another editing tool. I'd considered Phase One as I really don't find Lightroom very easy to use and its useless at filing the images. But I have an issue with Phase One not supporting the Nik software.
For the moment I'm going to have to continue with Aperture, but may at least download P.O. and give it a try.

[i]............You 'gifted' a Leica!!!!![/i]

It was a D-Lux 4, not a 'true' Leica but a rebadged and upgraded Panasonic something or other. It did have a better quality lens, body, OS than the equivalent Panasonic. And the software it came with was much better quality - as was the brown leather case 🙂

I now use a Panasonic G6 which is great - still don't use it very much though.

I gave the Leica to someone on here, I had no use for it/wasn't using it. Found someone who would use it and they do.