i know it inside and out...can make it do whatever i need it to do in pretty much any situation. that's great. i love working with it.

but i have a client who would like a 20x24 of a specific image...i thought i could do it, i checked a 100% crop of their faces and it was clean. thankfully i didn't move forward that quickly...

came back to it later and revisited things bc i had a nagging feeling. apparently the 100% crop that looked so clean was at a lower res (smaller image) than the 300ppi i need. i *could* order it at 200ppi and it is some better...but there is *no* way it could go to 20x24. none.

:eyes:

that's fine...they are fine with a 16x20 (totally fine at that size) but it upset me. they asked me if it could go that big so they knew it was a stretch.

technically the d50 can go poster-sized with 6mp (i've seen examples) but this image is a crop in of a RAW file. it's not the full file. it's at ISO200 so it should have room to enlarge, but it doesn't to that size.

i take it 16x20 all the time with no problems. at least now i know and i figured it out before ordering...but it's frustrating. we're trying to save up for an upgrade for me but i'll not be offering anything larger than a 16x20 until i can upgrade since that is the largest i know i can absolutely guarantee.

some of the shots i did tonight (ironically at ISO400 and ISO800) look great at 20x24 (i was playing around trying to find my limits) but if i can't potentially offer it for every image, i shouldn't offer it.



eh. i'm rambling. it was just frustrating. hopefully i'll have the money for the second wind of the d300s. i would have been so tempted to pre-order in october had i the money so i know it's for the best. i never really would want the first release on a new camera. by the time the wait list is over (post-holiday) the bugs should be surfacing and getting fixed so i can get it in the spring (we hope.)

dh and i were playing in photoshop with various images, pushing them to see how far they could go, so he definitely sees i have reached the limits on the camera. that's good (otherwise i could have a dh flabbergasted at the idea of a $2500 camera/lens purchase :lol: )

that's my rambling thoughts tonight...

So Tracey, if you decide to sell your D50- lmk.

I love the D40, but I am soo sorry I didn't do to the D50 since I need the 'longer' lenses.. and the AF-S lenses are more $$$

:lol: i have a long line of folks wanting my d50 :joker:

i'll be keeping it as a backup body to the d300. i think i'll do all my birth photography with the d50. it's just so much lighter and more compact (not that it is compact but ykwim...compared to the d300 it's wee bitty :lol:)



i hate that they changed the d40 lens compatibility. that has made zero sense to me. none whatsoever...seems like a bizarre business move by nikon.

and i found out a way to alter my PP in CS2 that *should* let the 20x24 work just fine. asked some questions at ILP that led to some people sharing about aspect ratio and .tif files. information i didn't have previously...and i hope it helped.

we'll see.

I know, I wish I would have listened and got the D50 when buying.

I think I'm going to go with a D80, but I need to go and actually play with one at Wolf camera... it may be too heavy for me.

the d200 seemed too heavy for me when i got the d50. i have carpal tunnel pretty badly in my wrists but my chiro worked that and i got used to the d50 (which used to seem heavy to me :joker: < funny now.)

now i think the d200/300 feels good and solid in my hand. i look forward to shooting the d300 all the time.

the d80 is the same size as the d50. just a little bigger than the d40. the d40 seems tiny to me...the controls are more compact or something?