onbelaydave
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A lot of people liked the "extreme" macros I posted. Truth is they were shot with a Nikon N90s, w/a 105 macro (1:1 and one of their sharpest lenses) on Fuji Provia, the finest grained color film possible, in a flat port,w/a 33% mag. factor, yielding a better than life size image on the slide. But I read several years ago that the "Genuine Fractals" plug-in for PS to up rez your photos was INFERIOR to the built in bi-cubic interpolator in PS. Given that all of these images were at least 1:1 macro originally,and the sharpest of 8-10 shots scanned at 4000 dpi (54 mb native resolution) were picked for my "test". I rescaled my original 53 mb 4000dpi 5360x3530 pixel scans to double or triple their native resolutions AND THEN CROPPED down. My crops; although interpolated, avoided the overly pixelated look of a standard crop as my cropped image size was still the same or better than the original. Not to get into the film vs digital debate, I think film still has a "slight' edge for this extreme resolution testing. Try this the next time you need to crop something. It seems to work for my set up.