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Old 05-09-2002, 04:04 PM   #9
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I have an Olympus C-3040 3.3MP camera with the Zeiss lens. I love it. It takes great pictures. In fact, all of my pics on my website were shot with that camera. Thing is, I am not the best photographer in the world, and, as my paintings are quite shiny, I trust print quality pictures to a professional photo lab. They have polarizing filters, et.al. and I believe I get better "print quality" with a transparency from them than I could do myself. "Web quality" and 8x10 "portfolio quality" pics I do myself.

That said, there is no doubt in my mind that digital technology is advanced enough to produce print quality pics. I have a photographer friend who takes only digital, prints dye-sublimation, and gets incredible results.
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