I shot a vegetable/fruit spread that covers 3/4 sides of major brand foods national tractor trailer truck distribution fleet with 4x5 sheet film, 100 ISO and legendary Schneider optics. The cherries were basketball sized and spectacular color fidelity and sharpness viewed inches away. Twenty feet away to take in full image filling tractor trailer spanning such dimensions grabs the eye in way only finest reproduction printer specializing with state-of-art ultra-fidelity can.

The tech who actually achieved that output assured me that 10-20MP DSLR RAW files equally well-shot can process upscaled nearly as well as my gigantic 4x5 reproduced.

Most billboards are shockingly blurry viewed closer than intended fixed viewing distance of hundreds feet away. But tractor trailer huge images have to resolve sharply also three feet viewing distance from surface passing drivers see. The minimum acceptable fidelity standards are achieved today expertly post-processing for over-sized reproduction. Originals far below 50MP become billboards. 10MP images routinely make 4x8 foot trade show panels that sparkle, done right. The 4 foot wide specialists get gradations unpixelated with RAW originals.

50MP captures are vastly more common reproduced magazine sizes. Just like 4x5 film, often printed even smaller. Reproductions really large are tiny percentage of commercial photography. 1/10th of 1% numbers.

50MP is about ultra-high quality images with bandwidth tolerant enough of manipulation smoothly and sizes secondary benefit.

8x10 film sounds impressive, but the reality is it virtually went extinct. I have 3 8x10 cameras, full lens array from 160mm Super-Angulon to 16" tele and haven't shot one sheet in a decade. Finding film and getting processed still today an odyssey. I'm hoping someday breakthrough digital back makes them relevant again.

Even 4x5 film processed is no longer scheduled in my city. All four major labs shuttered with a single one-man lab left that closes early most days with none to run. Ten years ago there were +50 commercial photographers, today a fraction.

Is this typical trend elsewhere in medium cities or just bad location? I wonder because here film isn't even practical option.

I'd give right arm for simple Sony 35mm chip digital back for old 2 1/4 SLR's ripe market. Nothing fancy, just 100 ISO, thethered USB2 capture to laptop, limited to normal 90mm lens pixel well match for 1.5X tele. RAW process ten seconds, AC power. Basic. That would cover 95% studio shots, with DSLR for the rest. 25MP for $1,500 basic module and adaptor plates for all the old 2 1/4's. Who needs $50,000 fashion systems for bread-and-butter still-life jobs? How many hundreds-thousands unused 2 1/4's sales market? 35mm chips will become commodities once Sony's Alpha mass produces.

Y'all so damn proud declaring being one more XP luddite is just sad.

Whoever was responsible choosing standard SIM card in iPhone has already been fired. Expect future models to have soldered in or unique to Apple SIM design no matter how inconvenient for users.

Apple legal will be busy this weekend bullying host sites with scary take-down notices. The hack authors better have good lawyers. Apple will use awesome threat of DMCA piracy and worry about interpetation issues long after.

Within weeks the first iTunes lockout update lands. Over time, new updates aggresively plug holes popping up. Hackers go deep underground or lose interest hiding. Few Mac users P2P beyond Limewire.

Engadget probably will cave to the pressure to stay out of trouble and stop linking to hack sites or step more lightly on topic. They would be joining long list of sites finding Apple not to mess with regarding reverse engineering their products, hardware or software.

It's easy predicting their response towards hacking to unlock anything clearly piracy with zero tolerance openly public. Forget assuming it doesn't apply to iPhone.

Verizon must quite amused right now and new overseas carrier partners not happy. The iPhone can't exist as both closed and open. It's not an option until Apple gives away control, unlikely for near future.

A couple hackers dismantling hundreds of millon dollar profits potential overnight was silly 1998 movie only 13 year olds fantasize about. Anyone older acting as if hackers just have here needs a reality check.

I don't get it, all of you bought one before unlocking even launched for overseas locations hoping it would work by throwing down $500 just gambling?

Sorry to piss on your joy, but hardly buying decision to be proud about. The envy you expect might look reckless and foolish instead. When the firmware lockout makes all these bricks you can bet on that.

No one has ever made Steve look foolish and the stakes have never been higher. Worldwide hacking only fuels faster damage control to protect whole brand image. That cannot be underestimated how powerful this outcome became now.

The worst thing to do is make the list longer and more newsworthy. The press loves dirt after their fawning. If your iFhoney works in Tahiti don't brag about, just use it while you still can.

This is the company who sued a 100% Mac fan site all the way to one last court just before THE Supreme Court except finally getting shot down by circuit judge with some common sense. It would have been landmark free speech case otherwise.

The blogger's crime worthy of bottomless money spent punishing him? He dared leak details about a $50 Garageband gadget THAT NEVER LAUNCHED.

That 3rd party allow comment was just calculated ruse to flush out underground hacking. It worked beyond their wildest dreams.

Who would want to buy into sweating out a bricked phone every iTunes update bi-monthly? This shit will get so old so fast. Mac madness NEVER stops.

Fasten your seatbelts, its going to be a VERY bumpy ride. Pissing off Steve, with his pet no less, has no limits to resources spent regaining his ego. Only a fool thinks this silly drama is over. Apple has long history of vindictive pyschotic warfare weapon preference.

dfs=asshole:

http://accelerateyourmac.com/systems/G5_coolant_leaks.html#updates

The G5 leaking coolant epidemic after 18 months service life is a sad joke.

It's a ploy to delay new LAPTOP's not ready for release all shiny with Leopard to entice upgrading.

Probably hard drives Leopard needs the SSD hybrid buffer to run all the fluff. Or LED screens or whatever Apple will claim to have specially designed only by them and all the PC's rush to "copy" their superior innovation.

Running Vista on a 2003 1Gz tablet that is the bare minimum to even install Vista. If anyone should see slow file copying, I should.

Nothing worth complaining about here. Some things are vastly faster and others less overall with Vista. USB2 external drive and firewire external drive large file copying seems exactly same speed as XP for me. Who cares if small file copying takes 1.3 seconds instead of 1.1.

Compared to the DOG OSX10.0 - 10.2 was Vista is doing pretty well at month three and small file copying needing tweak is newsworthy hand wringing.